Theoretical discussions of biography approaches from history, microhistory and life writing / Edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton.

Other author Renders, Hans.
Other author De Haan, Binne.
Format Electronic
EditionRevised and augmented edition.
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Descriptionxix, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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SeriesEgodocuments and history series, 1873-653X ; volume 7
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index.
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LCCN 2014010867
ISBN9789004270145 (hardback : acid-free paper)

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