REF DT- Book Section TI- Gibbon's prospects: rhetoric, fame and the closing chapters of "The Decline and fall" AU- O'Brien, Karen AU- Burrow, John W. AU- Pocock, John AU- Womersley, David BT- Edward Gibbon Bicentenary essays PU- TIS- TXS- AB- TD- SE- NO- VO- None NV- None EN- LI- Oxford ET- Voltaire Foundation DA- 1997-01-01 YE- 1997 PA- 235-252 TC- IS- AB- KE- Histoire; Lieux géographiques; Historiographie; Italie - Rome; Suisse - Lausanne; Gibbon, Edward UR- AC- DB- lumieres.VD LG- Anglais END