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The rhetoric of numbers in Gibbon's History / F.P. Lock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lock, F. P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature and history.
- Numbers in literature.
- Symbolism of numbers in literature.
- Rome--History--Empire, 284-476--Historiography.
- Rome.
- Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
- Gibbon, Edward.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gibbon's History is one of the great master-narratives in the Western tradition. This book examines the ways in which Gibbon uses numbers: not only as historical evidence, for informational purposes, but to persuade (and sometimes to amuse), through the creation of a narrative voice that is at once authoritative and personal.
- Contents:
- Contents; Note on References; Preface; 1 Numbers; 2 Time; 3 Place; 4 Population; 5 War; 6 Religion; 7 Money; 8 Books; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-65875-5
- 1-61149-417-6
- OCLC:
- 845246825
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