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 |
| Edition | Revised and augmented edition. |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014. |
| Description | xix, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Egodocuments 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014010867 |
| ISBN | 9789004270145 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
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