Author: Gay, Peter
Title: Style in History
Description: London, Jonathan Cape, [1975]. orig.boards. 22x14cm, xi,242 pp. Dustwrapper spine faded.Some top page-edge spotting.. Some rubbing. A small chip to dustwrapper. Good+. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Style-From Manner to Matter; Gibbon: A Modern Cynic Among Ancient Politicians; Ranke: The Respectful Critic; Macaulay: Intellectual Voluptuary; Burckhardt: The Poet of Truth; Conclusion: On Style in History.

Keywords: Historiography, Edward Gibbon, Leopold von Ranke, Thomas Macaulay, Jacob Burckhardt, Historians, Historical Writing, History, Literary Criticism