Gibbon, Edward | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Braudy, Leo. “Edward Gibbon and ‘The Privilege of Fiction.’” Prose Studies 3, no. 2 (September 1980): 138-51.
Argues that Gibbon's attitudes towards and adoption of fiction as a means to interpret historical events are more important elements in the historian's writings than are works of classical historians and contemporary social philosophers.
Carnochan, W. B. Gibbon's Solitude: The Inward World of the Historian. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987, 228 p.
Full-length study of Gibbon's life and works that concentrates on the historian's efforts to understand both ancient Rome and himself.
Cosgrove, Peter. “The Circulation of Genres in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” ELH 63 (spring 1996): 109-38.
Seeks to understand the narrative model of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by...
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