Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City' : the historian and his reputation, 1776-1815
"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."
collective biographies
xii, 452 pages ; 23 cm
9780198187332, 0198187335
47221795
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 The two drafts of Sheffield's unpublished note on chapters fifteen and sixteen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