Theoretical discussions of biography : approaches from history, microhistory and life writing /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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| Edition: | Revised and augmented edition. |
| Series: | Egodocuments and history series.
volume 7. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Nigel Hamilton
- Note on the revised and augmented edition
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: The challenges of biography studies / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan
- Section 1. Historiography of biography studies
- Towards traditions and nations / Binne de Haan and Hans Renders
- Roots of biography : from journalism to pulp to scholarly based non-fiction / Hans Renders
- The solace of doubt? : Biographical methodology after the short twentieth century / James Walter
- Section 2. Biography and history
- The uses of biography / Giovanni Levi
- The role of the individual in history : biographical and historical writing in the nineteenth and twentieth century / Sabina Loriga
- Contemporary values of life : biographical dictionaries in the nineteenth century / Hans Renders
- Section 3. Biography and microhistory
- What is micro in microhistory? / Matti Peltonen
- Microhistory and the post-modern challenge / Richard D. Brown
- The limits of representativeness : biography, life writing and microhistory / Hans Renders
- Microhistory : two or three things that I know about it / Carlo Ginzburg
- Section 4. Biography and life writing
- Biography in academia and the critical frontier in life writing : where biography shifts into life writing / Hans Renders
- The eclipse of biography in life writing / Binne de Haan
- Coming to terms : life writing
- from genre to critical practice / Marlene Kadar
- Biography / Anonymous
- Sex in biography / Ernest Boyd
- The personal in the political biography / Hans Renders
- The biographical method / Hans Renders
- Why genealogy and biography are not kin / Hans Renders
- A Nobel Prize for biography / Nigel Hamilton.