The Plot of Time: Narrative Form in Hume, Fielding, and Gibbon

Braudy, Leo. Narrative Form in History and Fiction: Hume, Fielding, and Gibbon. Princeton, 1970; second edition (as The Plot of Time, Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2003).
ISBN 0972762574, 978-0972762571

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Contents

Acknowledgments-8
Preface-9
1: Introduction–13
2: Clarendon & Bolingbroke–24
3: Hume: The Structure of the Past– 41
4: Fielding: Public History and Individual Perception–103
5: Gibbon: Public History and the Shaping of the Self–231
Appendix: Memoirs of My Life: The Shape of the Immediate–289
Notes–293
Bibliography–314
Index–327

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