Transformation of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Klappentext David Womersley's book investigates Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1. The historiographic milieu: 1. Montesquieu's Considerations; 2. Hume; Part II. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 3. Introduction; Volume I - 1776: 4. Style; 5. Augustus; 6. Tacitus; 7. Narrative; 8. Chapters XV and XVI; Volumes II and III - 1781; 9. 'The more rational ignorance of the man'; 10. Julian the Apostate; 11. Ammianus Marcellinus; 12. 'The nice and secret springs of action'; Volumes IV, V and VI - 1788; 13. 'A dead uniformity of abject vices'; 14. Structure; 15. 'Not a system, but a series'; 16. 'A keener glance' 17. Realising the past; 18. 'The wide and various prospect of desolation'.

Product details

• Authors: David Womersley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521070966
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07096-6
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity