Impartial stranger
history and intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
by Peter Cosgrove
"Impartial Stranger approaches the questions of narrative in history-writing by examining specific literary genres and textual precursors embedded in the reconstruction of the past. It exploits the seam between literary criticism and philosophies of history in order to formulate a new model for reading history. The resulting synthesis permits a reevaluation of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that queries the illusion of authorial omniscience.
The analysis of particular cases of the interplay of dramatic and fictional forms in this eighteenth-century landmark provides a perspective on theories of historical narrative as well as an illustration of the problems encountered by Enlightenment historians in finding a satisfactory literary vehicle."--BOOK JACKET.
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Historiography, Intertextuality, Literature and history, Criticism and interpretation, Historians in literature, History, Gibbon, edward, 1737-1794, English literature, history and criticism, 18th centuryPeople
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)Places
Byzantine Empire, RomeTimes
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Impartial stranger: history and intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
1999, University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses
in English
087413658X 9780874136586
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-281) and index.
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