James Cotter Morison

Gibbon (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

English Men of Letters Series

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This 1878 volume in the English Men of Letters series explores the life of Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. According to a contemporary review by Mark Pattison in the Academy, "Future numbers of the series may imitate, they cannot surpass, the present specimen." A splendid perspective on the life of an intriguing man.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411439078
• Artikelnr.: 37875158

Autorenporträt

James Augustus Cotter Morison, an English essayist and historian, was born in London. His father, who had amassed a huge fortune as the inventor and proprietor of "Morison's Pills," lived in Paris until his death in 1840, and Cotter Morison thus gained not just knowledge of the French language, but also a deep affinity for France and French institutions. He was educated at Highgate School and Lincoln College, Oxford. Here he was influenced by Mark Pattison, to whom his receptive personality may have owed a certain over-fastidiousness that defined his entire career. He also met the main English Positivists and became a devout follower of their views. Nonetheless, he maintained a great affinity for the Roman Catholic religion and once spent several weeks in a Catholic convent. Another significant influence shows in the magnificent Life of St Bernard, which he published in 1863, that of his friend Carlyle, to whom the work is dedicated and whose style it is heavily influenced. Meanwhile, he had been a regular writer, first to the Literary Gazette, edited by his friend John Morley, and later to the Saturday Review during its most creative period.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Gibbon's early life up to the time of his leaving Oxford
2. At Lausanne
3. In the militia
4. The Italian journey
5. Literary schemes. The history of Switzerland. Dissertation on the sixth Aeneid. Father's death. Settlement in London
6. Life in London. Parliament. The Board of Trade. The Decline and Fall. Migration to Lausanne
7. The first three volumes of The Decline and Fall
8. The last ten years of his life at Lausanne
9. The last three volumes of The Decline and Fall
10. Last illness. Death. Conclusion.