TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts,Charlotte
TI  - Edward Gibbon and the shape of history /Charlotte Roberts
SN  - 9780191014901
AV  - DG311 .E393 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - Annotation; Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History is a detailed examination of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as a work of scholarship and of literature. It combines literary close reading with historical analysis in order to demonstrate that the constant interplay between the particular details of composition and the larger patterns of argument and narrative informs every aspect of Gibbon's work. Dr Roberts conveys asense of the Decline and Fall as a work more complex and conflicted, in its tone and structure, than has been appreciated by previous scholars, but without losing sight of the grand contours of Gibbon's superlative achievement
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