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• catalog abstract ""Gibbon was unabashed in acknowledging that his career as an historian was fuelled by a desire for fame, and the success of The Decline and Fall indeed furnished him with 'a name, a rank, a character, in the World' to which he would not otherwise have been entitled. Eventually this public reputation was pleasing to him, and nourished his innocent vanity. Initially, however, it was a reputation he resented, and was determined to resist. In particular, the denunciation by the spokesmen for religious orthodoxy of Gibbon's treatment of Christianity was (so Gibbon contended) a vicious misrepresentation." "The subject of this book is the story of the conflict between Gibbon and those he mockingly dubbed the 'Watchmen of the Holy City', and it explores the ramifications of an elusive aspect of authorship. By considering the sequence of interactions between the historian and his readership, Womersley makes possible a more intimate understanding of what might be called Gibbon's experience of himself. At the same time he deepens our knowledge of the conditions of English authorship during the later decades of the eighteenth and the early decades of the nineteenth centuries, from the opening of the war with the American colonies, down to the successful conclusion of the wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France."--Cover.".
• catalog contributor b12405390.
• catalog coverage "Byzantine Empire Historiography.".
• catalog coverage "England Intellectual life 18th century.".
• catalog coverage "Rome History Empire, 284-476 Historiography.".
• catalog created "2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
• catalog description ""Gibbon was unabashed in acknowledging that his career as an historian was fuelled by a desire for fame, and the success of The Decline and Fall indeed furnished him with 'a name, a rank, a character, in the World' to which he would not otherwise have been entitled. Eventually this public reputation was pleasing to him, and nourished his innocent vanity. Initially, however, it was a reputation he resented, and was determined to resist. In particular, the denunciation by the spokesmen for religious orthodoxy of Gibbon's treatment of Christianity was (so Gibbon contended) a vicious misrepresentation."".
• catalog description ""The subject of this book is the story of the conflict between Gibbon and those he mockingly dubbed the 'Watchmen of the Holy City', and it explores the ramifications of an elusive aspect of authorship. By considering the sequence of interactions between the historian and his readership, Womersley makes possible a more intimate understanding of what might be called Gibbon's experience of himself. At the same time he deepens our knowledge of the conditions of English authorship during the later decades of the eighteenth and the early decades of the nineteenth centuries, from the opening of the war with the American colonies, down to the successful conclusion of the wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France."--Cover.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [428]-445) and index.".
• catalog description "Revision and religion -- Forging a polemical style : Gibbon's Vindication and literary warfare, 1694-1779 -- 'Too deeply into the mud of the Arian controversy' : Gibbon and the early church fathers -- 'Enthusiasm and imposture' : Gibbon and Mahomet -- Gibbon's unfinished history -- The 'memoirs' : autobiography in a time of revolution -- 'As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense' : three versions of the death of a father -- 'Fourteen months, the most barren and unprofitable of my whole life' : five versions of residence in Oxford -- The making of Gibbon's Miscellaneous works -- Conclusions -- Appendices : 1. The two drafts of Sheffield's unpublished note on chapters fifteen and sixteen -- 2. Gibbon's 'Memoirs of my life' : drarfts, correspondence, and context -- 3. John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821) : a bibliography -- 4. The three versions of the death of Edward Gibbon Senior -- 5. Residence in Oxford and conversion to Catholicism : MSS B, C, D, and E -- 6. Residence in Oxford and conversion to Catholicism : MS F and MW 1796 -- 7. Editing Gibbon's Miscellaneous works : texts and contexts.".
• catalog extent "xii, 452 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0198187335".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Byzantine Empire Historiography.".
• catalog spatial "England Intellectual life 18th century.".
• catalog spatial "England".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog spatial "Rome History Empire, 284-476 Historiography.".
• catalog subject "937/.06/092 aB 21".
• catalog subject "DG206.G5 W66 2002".
• catalog subject "DG206.G5 W66 2002X".
• catalog subject "Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.".
• catalog subject "Historians England Biography.".
• catalog subject "Historians Great Britain Biography.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Revision and religion -- Forging a polemical style : Gibbon's Vindication and literary warfare, 1694-1779 -- 'Too deeply into the mud of the Arian controversy' : Gibbon and the early church fathers -- 'Enthusiasm and imposture' : Gibbon and Mahomet -- Gibbon's unfinished history -- The 'memoirs' : autobiography in a time of revolution -- 'As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense' : three versions of the death of a father -- 'Fourteen months, the most barren and unprofitable of my whole life' : five versions of residence in Oxford -- The making of Gibbon's Miscellaneous works -- Conclusions -- Appendices : 1. The two drafts of Sheffield's unpublished note on chapters fifteen and sixteen -- 2. Gibbon's 'Memoirs of my life' : drarfts, correspondence, and context -- 3. John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821) : a bibliography -- 4. The three versions of the death of Edward Gibbon Senior -- 5. Residence in Oxford and conversion to Catholicism : MSS B, C, D, and E -- 6. Residence in Oxford and conversion to Catholicism : MS F and MW 1796 -- 7. Editing Gibbon's Miscellaneous works : texts and contexts.".
• catalog title "Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City' : the historian and his reputation, 1776-1815 / David Womersley.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".