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ISBN10: 0804713634, ISBN13: 9780804713634, [publisher: Stanford University Press] Hardcover 225 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Leicht vergilbt, sonst sehr guter Zustand / Slightly yellowed, otherwise in very good condition. - This innovative study of Edward Gibbon and his work considers the relationship between the historian’s experience of his inner life and his literary portrayal of past lives and ideals. Sharply distinguishing itself from traditional biographical approaches, it shows how Gibbon both defined himself by his literary work and remained beyond its consoling or resolving formulations, and how he was himself caught up in the ironies for which he is famous. After sketching the conditions of solitude under which Gibbon lived and worked, the author describes how, to bring order to history, Gibbon arranges the material of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by stationing the narrator on a high, Olympian prospect within the work, a position that enables simultaneous moral and narrative command. He locates Gibbon’s attack on the contingent madness of Christianity within a larger scene of cosmic ironies, and examines Gibbon’s nervous attempts to fix and define character, as exemplified in his portraits of ...
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ISBN10: 0804713634, ISBN13: 9780804713634, [publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA] Hardcover 225p. A hardcover book and dustjacket in very good condition. Jacket is enclosed in a protective mylar cover and has only the slightest edgewear. The book is also a bit edgeworn; otherwise clean and tight. A scholarly study of the life and works of Edward Gibbon.
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Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, Date: 1987. Hardcover. Very Good. 225p. A hardcover book and dustjacket in very good condition. Jacket is enclosed in a protective mylar cover and has only the slightest edgewear. The book is also a bit edgeworn; otherwise clean and tight. A scholarly study of the life and works of Edward Gibbon. 1987. Stanford University Press ISBN 0804713634 9780804713634 [US]