The Empire unpossess'd
an essay on Gibbon's Decline and fall
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Publication
1981-05-29 - Brand: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York
Language
English
Word Count
40,000 words, Guess
Page Count
160 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveempireunpossessd0000goss
- ISBN-100521234530
- ISBN-139780521234535
- Library of Congress Control Number80024008
- OCLC Control Number6666316
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780521234535
- Open LibraryOL21271570M
Classifications
- LCCDG311.G57 G67
Description
One of a small number of historical texts that have become classics, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire demands and deserves the kind of attention readers habitually grant to the classics of fictional literature. In Lionel Gossman's thematic and rhetorical study of Gibbon's masterpiece, the foundation of authority is seen as the historian's chief concern. The central problem of the work - the foundation of political authority - also appears in another form, Gossman contends, as a central problem of the work - that of the authority of the historical text itself.
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