Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireUniversity of Delaware Press, 1999 - 290 pages 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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Acknowledgments | 13 |
Tropes of Transcendence | 48 |
Pandemonium and Romance | 100 |
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