TY - BOOK ID - 78072792 TI - The rhetoric of numbers in Gibbon's History PY - 2012 SN - 1283658755 1611494176 9781611494174 1611494168 9781611494167 9781283658751 6613971251 9786613971258 PB - Newark : Lanham, Md. : University of Delaware Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, DB - UniCat KW - Literature and history. KW - Numbers in literature. KW - Symbolism of numbers in literature. KW - History and literature KW - History and poetry KW - Poetry and history KW - History KW - Gibbon, Edward, KW - Rome KW - Historiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78072792 AB - 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. ER -