Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Peter Cosgrove

Cosgrove's book advances the thesis that the domain of intertextuality pervades historians' use of archives. Gibbon in particular conducts an unwitting dialogue with his sources and often mimics their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087413658X
• ISBN13: 9780874136586
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 290 Pages