Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (Reviews of Books).

From: Albion | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Scanlan, J. T. | Copyright information

Peter Cosgrove. Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999. Pp. 290. $43.50. ISBN 0-8741-3568-X.

Unlike many who have written on Gibbon, Peter Cosgrove views him as "an example of someone whose literary skills contest his scholarly method," to quote an essay Cosgrove published in 1991. This vision of Gibbon's achievement--this intellectual predisposition--is the source of bo...

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