The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History
by
F. P. Lock
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1611494168
ISBN-13
9781611494167
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
University of Delaware Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 27th, 2012
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
476 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.90 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 History: theory & methods
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Gibbon’s History is one of the great master-narratives in the Western tradition. This book examines the ways in which Gibbon uses numbers: not only as historical evidence, for informational purposes, but to persuade (and sometimes to amuse), through the creation of a narrative voice that is at once authoritative and personal.
Gibbon aspired to combine the critical analysis of the eighteenth-century philosophe with the older traditions of the humanist and scholarly historian. His different uses of numbers, to inform and to persuade, illustrate his remarkable fusion of these approaches. This book, the first to be devoted to a historian’s use of numbers, shows how carefully Gibbon interrogated and deployed the numerical evidence in his sources to create a more accurate historical narrative; to demonstrate his own reliability and candor as a historian; and to convince readers of the validity of his interpretations of characters and events.
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