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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198187335
ISBN-13
9780198187332
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1980361
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Gibbon and the 'watchmen of the Holy City' : the Historian and His Reputation, 1776-1815
Subject
Ancient / Rome, Literary, Europe / Great Britain / General, Historical, Byzantine Empire, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2001-036390
Reviews
Erudite and absorbing new book ... David Womersley has written an important book; it greatly increases our sense of the ways in which Gibbon's self-fashioning went on within the pages of his major works ... Womersley has taken us where none have ventured before, in showing Gibbon as a Bowdler-like censor of his own ongoing productions., "Womersley has produced a signally effective study of the various processes which create an authorial reputation, assiduously demonstrating how careful documentary reconstruction can restore the rich textuality of a writer's life.... This is a major contribution not only to Gibbon scholarship but also to methodology."--Review of English Studies"Embodies very high standards of scholarship and critical acumen.... [Womersley] has traced a story not likely to be seriously improved upon for many decades to come. --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900"Erudite and absorbing.... David Womersley has written an important book; it greatly increases our sense of the ways in which Gibbon's self-fashioning went on within the pages of his major works.... Womersley has taken us where none have ventured before, in showing Gibbon as a Bowdler-like censor of his own ongoing productions."--Times Literary Supplement"To appreciate Gibbon the historian, read the magisterial Decline and Fall; to know Gibbon the man behind the history, read the Memoirs and the Letters; to understand Gibbon the author, and the growth of his literary reputation, read this book by Womersley."--Virginia Quarterly Review"This brilliant and careful work...contains much of permanent value for any student of Gibbon."--Choice"Womersley's analyses are subtle, original, and valuable.... In addition to its value for those interested in Gibbon's work, this book is a significant contribution to the discussion of eighteenth-century controversial writing, belonging on the shelf with Joseph Levine's The Battle of the Books.--Albion, Womersley has produced a signally effective study of the various processes which create an authorial reputation, assiduously demonstrating how careful documentary reconstruction can restore the rich textuality of a writer's life ... This is a major contribution not only to Gibbon scholarship but also to methodology., "Womersley has produced a signally effective study of the various processes which create an authorial reputation, assiduously demonstrating how careful documentary reconstruction can restore the rich textuality of a writer's life.... This is a major contribution not only to Gibbon scholarship but also to methodology."-- Review of English Studies "Embodies very high standards of scholarship and critical acumen.... [Womersley] has traced a story not likely to be seriously improved upon for many decades to come. -- Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 "Erudite and absorbing.... David Womersley has written an important book; it greatly increases our sense of the ways in which Gibbon's self-fashioning went on within the pages of his major works.... Womersley has taken us where none have ventured before, in showing Gibbon as a Bowdler-like censor of his own ongoing productions."-- Times Literary Supplement "To appreciate Gibbon the historian, read the magisterial Decline and Fall ; to know Gibbon the man behind the history, read the Memoirs and the Letters ; to understand Gibbon the author, and the growth of his literary reputation, read this book by Womersley."-- Virginia Quarterly Review "This brilliant and careful work...contains much of permanent value for any student of Gibbon."-- Choice "Womersley's analyses are subtle, original, and valuable.... In addition to its value for those interested in Gibbon's work, this book is a significant contribution to the discussion of eighteenth-century controversial writing, belonging on the shelf with Joseph Levine's The Battle of the Books .-- Albion, "Womersley has produced a signally effective study of the various processes which create an authorial reputation, assiduously demonstrating how careful documentary reconstruction can restore the rich textuality of a writer's life.... This is a major contribution not only to Gibbon scholarship but also to methodology."--Review of English Studies "Embodies very high standards of scholarship and critical acumen.... [Womersley] has traced a story not likely to be seriously improved upon for many decades to come. --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 "Erudite and absorbing.... David Womersley has written an important book; it greatly increases our sense of the ways in which Gibbon's self-fashioning went on within the pages of his major works.... Womersley has taken us where none have ventured before, in showing Gibbon as a Bowdler-like censor of his own ongoing productions."--Times Literary Supplement "To appreciate Gibbon the historian, read the magisterialDecline and Fall; to know Gibbon the man behind the history, read theMemoirsand theLetters; to understand Gibbon the author, and the growth of his literary reputation, read this book by Womersley."--Virginia Quarterly Review "This brilliant and careful work...contains much of permanent value for any student of Gibbon."--Choice "Womersley's analyses are subtle, original, and valuable.... In addition to its value for those interested in Gibbon's work, this book is a significant contribution to the discussion of eighteenth-century controversial writing, belonging on the shelf with Joseph Levine'sThe Battle of theBooks.--Albion, "Womersley has produced a signally effective study of the various processes which create an authorial reputation, assiduously demonstrating how careful documentary reconstruction can restore the rich textuality of a writer's life.... This is a major contribution not only to Gibbon scholarship but also to methodology."--Review of English Studies "Embodies very high standards of scholarship and critical acumen.... [Womersley] has traced a story not likely to be seriously improved upon for many decades to come. --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 "Erudite and absorbing.... David Womersley has written an important book; it greatly increases our sense of the ways in which Gibbon's self-fashioning went on within the pages of his major works.... Womersley has taken us where none have ventured before, in showing Gibbon as a Bowdler-like censor of his own ongoing productions."--Times Literary Supplement "To appreciate Gibbon the historian, read the magisterial Decline and Fall; to know Gibbon the man behind the history, read the Memoirs and the Letters; to understand Gibbon the author, and the growth of his literary reputation, read this book by Womersley."--Virginia Quarterly Review "This brilliant and careful work...contains much of permanent value for any student of Gibbon."--Choice "Womersley's analyses are subtle, original, and valuable.... In addition to its value for those interested in Gibbon's work, this book is a significant contribution to the discussion of eighteenth-century controversial writing, belonging on the shelf with Joseph Levine's The Battle of the Books.--Albion
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
937/.06/092 aB
Table Of Content
IntroductionNote on ReferencesAbbreviationsI: The Historian and his Reputation, 1776-17881. Revision and Religion2. Forging a Polemical Style: Gibbon's Vindication and Literary Warfare, 1694-17793. 'Too deeply into the mud of the Arian controversy': Gibbon and the early Church Fathers4. 'Enthusiasm and Imposture': Gibbon and MahometII: After The Decline and Fall5. Gibbon's Unfinished History6. The 'Memoirs': Autobiography in Time of Revolution7. 'As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense': Three Versions of the Death of a Father8. 'Fourteen months, the most barren and unprofitable of my whole life': Five Versions of Residence in OxfordIII: Miscellaneous Works9. The Making of Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works10. ConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
The subject of this book is the story of the conflict between Gibbon and those he mockingly dubbed the "Watchmen of the Holy City," and it explores the ramifications of an elusive aspect of authorship. By considering the sequence of interactions between the historian and his readership, Womersley makes possible a more intimate understanding of what might be called Gibbon's experience of himself. At the same time he deepens our knowledge of the conditions of English authorship during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries., Gibbon was unabashed in acknowledging that his career as an historian was fuelled by a desire for fame, and the success of The Decline and Fall indeed furnished him with 'a name, a rank, a character, in the World' to which he would not otherwise have been entitled. Eventually this public reputation was pleasing to him, and nourished his innocent vanity. Initially, however, it was a reputation he resented, and was determined to resist. In particular, the denunciation by the spokesmen for religious orthodoxy of Gibbon's treatment of Christianity was (so Gibbon contended) a vicious misrepresentation.The subject of this book is the story of the conflict between Gibbon and those he mockingly dubbed the 'Watchmen of the Holy City', and it explores the ramifications of an elusive aspect of authorship. By considering the sequence of interactions between the historian and his readership, Womersley makes possible a more intimate understanding of what might be called Gibbon's experience of himself. At the same time he deepens our knowledge of the conditions of English authorship during the later decades of the eighteenth and the early decades of the nineteenth centuries, from the opening of the war with the American colonies, down to the successful conclusion of the wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France., Womersley examines Gibbon's conflict with his critics, in particular the spokesmen for religious orthodoxy. By considering the sequence of interactions between the historian and his readership, he illuminates what might be called Gibbon's experience of himself, at the same time deepening our understanding of the conditions of English authorship during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
LC Classification Number
DG206.G5W66 2002
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