Gibbon's Autobiography

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-58359-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1970, Gibbon’s Autobiography gives a fascinating insight into one of the greatest minds of English cultural history and an illuminating account of the habits and assumptions of the ruling class in eighteenth-century England. Gibbon never wrote an autobiography as such but left a series of short memoirs which his friend Lord Sheffield edited and bowdlerized. The present edition restores much of what Sheffield censored and provides the first easily available annotated text of the memoirs.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reese, M. M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Text 2. ‘The Gibbon’ 3. The Autobiography 4. Note on the present edition Gibbon’s Autobiography 1. Introduction; the writing of autobiography 2. The author’s family 3. His birth, ill-health and early schooling 4. Oxford; religious conversion 5. Lausanne; M. Pavillard; books and literary acquaintances; Susan Curchod 6. Gibbon’s return to England; his first book 7. Life in the militia 8. Paris, Lausanne and a tour of Italy; decision to write a history of Rome 9. Death of his father; he settles in London and enters the House of Commons 10. Publication of the first volume of the Decline and Fall; its reception 11. A Lord of Trade; the second and third volumes; Gibbon returns to Lausanne 12. Life and visitors in Lausanne; completion of the Decline and Fall; reflections on the French Revolution