
The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History
F. P. Lock(Author)
University of Delaware Press
Published on 27. September 2012
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-61149-416-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
441 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61149-416-7 (9781611494167)
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Person
F. P. Lock is professor of English at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.