Description
Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), one of the world's greatest historians.
About the Author
Karen O'Brien is Head of Humanities and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon (Cambridge,1997), Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2009) and, as co-editor with Peter Garside, The Oxford History of the Novel: British and British Fiction: 1750-1820 (2015). Brian Young is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford where he is Charles Stuart Tutor at Christ Church. His publications include Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke (1998) and The Victorian Eighteenth Century: An Intellectual History (2007). He has edited, with Richard Whatmore, A Companion to Intellectual History (2016).
Book Information
ISBN 9781107625020
Author Karen O'Brien
Format Paperback
Page Count 260
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 440g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 151mm * 13mm