Theoretical discussions of biography : approaches from history, microhistory and life writing /
Theoretical discussions of biography : approaches from history, microhistory and life writing /
edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton.
- Rev. and augm. ed.
- 1 online resource (pages)
- Egodocuments and history series, v. 7 1873-653X ; .
- Egodocuments and History Series 7. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2014-II, ISBN: 9789004271456. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies / Towards Traditions and Nations / Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction / The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century / The Uses of Biography / The Role of the Individual in History: Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century / Contemporary Values of Life: Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century / What Is Micro in Microhistory? / Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge / The Limits of Representativeness: Biography, Life Writing, and Microhistory / Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It / Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing / The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing / Coming to Terms: Life Writing – from Genre to Critical Practice / Biography / Sex in Biography / The Personal in the Political Biography / The Biographical Method / Why Genealogy and Biography are Not Kin / A Nobel Prize for Biography / Bibliography / Index / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Binne de Haan and Hans Renders -- Hans Renders -- James Walter -- Giovanni Levi -- Sabina Loriga -- Hans Renders -- Matti Peltonen -- Richard D. Brown -- Hans Renders -- Carlo Ginzburg -- Hans Renders -- Binne de Haan -- Marlene Kadar -- Anonymous -- Ernest Boyd -- Hans Renders -- Hans Renders -- Hans Renders -- Nigel Hamilton -- Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Hans Renders and Binne de Haan.
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Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections between biography and the fields of microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing illuminate key challenges and problems in studying individual lives. Different perspectives are provided on the ways in which biography contributes to scholarship in the humanities in general and academic historiography in particular. The contributing authors are academic experts in these fields and include Richard D. Brown, Carlo Ginzburg, Nigel Hamilton, Marlene Kadar, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Matti Peltonen, and James Walter.
9789004274709
10.1163/9789004274709 DOI
2014010867
Biography as a literary form.
Biography--Philosophy.
Historiography.
Microhistory.
Autobiography.
CT31 / .T54 2014
920.001
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies / Towards Traditions and Nations / Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction / The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century / The Uses of Biography / The Role of the Individual in History: Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century / Contemporary Values of Life: Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century / What Is Micro in Microhistory? / Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge / The Limits of Representativeness: Biography, Life Writing, and Microhistory / Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It / Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing / The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing / Coming to Terms: Life Writing – from Genre to Critical Practice / Biography / Sex in Biography / The Personal in the Political Biography / The Biographical Method / Why Genealogy and Biography are Not Kin / A Nobel Prize for Biography / Bibliography / Index / Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Binne de Haan and Hans Renders -- Hans Renders -- James Walter -- Giovanni Levi -- Sabina Loriga -- Hans Renders -- Matti Peltonen -- Richard D. Brown -- Hans Renders -- Carlo Ginzburg -- Hans Renders -- Binne de Haan -- Marlene Kadar -- Anonymous -- Ernest Boyd -- Hans Renders -- Hans Renders -- Hans Renders -- Nigel Hamilton -- Hans Renders and Binne de Haan -- Hans Renders and Binne de Haan.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections between biography and the fields of microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing illuminate key challenges and problems in studying individual lives. Different perspectives are provided on the ways in which biography contributes to scholarship in the humanities in general and academic historiography in particular. The contributing authors are academic experts in these fields and include Richard D. Brown, Carlo Ginzburg, Nigel Hamilton, Marlene Kadar, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Matti Peltonen, and James Walter.
9789004274709
10.1163/9789004274709 DOI
2014010867
Biography as a literary form.
Biography--Philosophy.
Historiography.
Microhistory.
Autobiography.
CT31 / .T54 2014
920.001