{"product_id":"the-transformation-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-paperback-9780521070966","title":"The Transformation of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521070966","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Transformation of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Womersley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521070966, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 August 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDavid 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, examining its style and irony, tracing its classical and French sources, and highlighting the importance of its composition in three instalments over a period of twenty years. Dr Womersley discusses each of these instalments in detail, plotting the work's transformation from conception to completion, and relating this to the achievements and limitations of the philosophic historiography which Gibbon inherited from Montesquieu and Hume, but finally discarded. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire emerges from this study as a work more flexible in its sympathies and surprising in its judgements than has hitherto been granted, while the magnitude of Gibbon's achievement as a stylist, historian and thinker is brought into sharper focus.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart 1. The historiographic milieu: 1. Montesquieu's Considerations\u003cbr\u003e 2. Hume\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 3. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Volume I - 1776: 4. Style\u003cbr\u003e 5. Augustus\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tacitus\u003cbr\u003e 7. Narrative\u003cbr\u003e 8. Chapters XV and XVI\u003cbr\u003e Volumes II and III - 1781\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'The more rational ignorance of the man'\u003cbr\u003e 10. Julian the Apostate\u003cbr\u003e 11. Ammianus Marcellinus\u003cbr\u003e 12. 'The nice and secret springs of action'\u003cbr\u003e Volumes IV, V and VI - 1788\u003cbr\u003e 13. 'A dead uniformity of abject vices'\u003cbr\u003e 14. Structure\u003cbr\u003e 15. 'Not a system, but a series'\u003cbr\u003e 16. 'A keener glance' 17. Realising the past\u003cbr\u003e 18. 'The wide and various prospect of desolation'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004712309016,"sku":"9780521070966","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521070966i.jpg?v=1694969186","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-transformation-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-paperback-9780521070966","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}