Theoretical Discussions of Biography : Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing: Augmented Edition (Egodocuments and History) (Revised)

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Theoretical Discussions of Biography : Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing: Augmented Edition (Egodocuments and History) (Revised)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 273 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9789004270145
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Full Description

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.

Contents

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword
Nigel Hamilton

Note on the Revised and Augmented Edition

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies
Hans Renders & Binne de Haan

Section I: Historiography of Biography Studies

2 Towards Traditions and Nations
Binne de Haan & Hans Renders

3 Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction
Hans Renders

4 The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century
James Walter

Section II: Biography and History

5 The Uses of Biography
Giovanni Levi

6 The Role of the Individual in History. Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Sabina Loriga

7 Contemporary Values of Life. Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century
Hans Renders

Section III: Biography and Microhistory

8 What Is Micro in Microhistory?
Matti Peltonen

9 Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge
Richard D. Brown

10 The Limits of Representativeness. Biography, Life Writing and Microhistory Hans Renders

11 Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It
Carlo Ginzburg

Section IV: Biography and Life Writing

12 Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing
Hans Renders

13 The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing
Binne de Haan

14 Coming to Terms: Life Writing - from Genre to Critical Practice
Marlene Kadar

Appendices

15 Biography
Anonymous

16 Sex in Biography
Ernest Boyd

17 The Personal in the Political Biography
Hans Renders

18 The Biographical Method
Hans Renders

19 Why Genealogy and Biography Are Not Kin
Hans Renders

20 A Nobel Prize for Biography
Nigel Hamilton

Bibliography

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