Person
David Womersley
1957
David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the
University of Oxford. His monographs include Divinity and State (OUP), Gibbon and the “Watchmen of the Holy City” (OUP), The Transformation of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (CUP), and Thinking Through Shakespeare (Princeton UP).
He is the editor of many books, including the ‘Penguin Classics’ editions of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson and David Hume’s Complete Essays. He has also edited the tercentenary anniversary edition of Gulliver’s Travels (CUP). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.
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