Estudio del texto de Gibbon: forma y escala de una nueva edición de sus escritos. The State of Gibbon’s text, and the shape and scale of a new edition of his writings

David Womersley

doi:10.12795/araucaria.2022.i51.29

Authors

David Womersley Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature; Professorial Fellow, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795/araucaria.2022.i51.29

Keywords:

Gibbon’s writings, British Eighteenth Century, European Enlightenment

Abstract

Gibbon is by general consent the greatest historian in the English language. In his own lifetime he was also a literary figure with a European-wide reputation. Since Gibbon’s death The Decline and Fall has maintained its status as one of the very few —perhaps indeed the only— work of history which a well-read person might be expected to have at least sampled. It is therefore surprising that no comprehensive and uniform edition of Gibbon’s writings and correspondence has ever been projected, let alone brought to completion. A comprehensive and scholarly edition of Gibbon’s writings and correspondence poses particular challenges, and would require an unusually large number of volumes. However, it would also yield a plentiful harvest of new findings and would stimulate and support further research, not just on Gibbon himself, but on the British eighteenth century and the European Enlightenment more generally.

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Author Biography

David Womersley, Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature; Professorial Fellow, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

English Lecturership at Trinity College, Cambridge, before holding a Junior Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge and then a in the School of English at the University of Leeds. Tutorial Fellow in English at Jesus College, Oxford from 1984 until 2002. Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature and fellow at St. Catherine’s College. Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. C.F. von Siemens Fellowship at the C.F. von Siemens Stiftung, Munich (2018-19).

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