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Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History
Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History
Author: Charlotte Roberts
Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously published Memoirs demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also an insistent awareness of the dangers these values pose to coherence and narrative order. In...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198704836
ISBN-10: 0198704836
Publication Date: 9/17/2014
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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