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Recent academic historiography has seen a profusion of theoretical perspectives on biography, both analytical and descriptive. Yet many biographers still fear 'theory' as antithetical to accessible narration of real lives.
This volume presents eighteen essays by more than a dozen scholars and practitioners from Australia, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, and the United States who seek to banish such fear. Writing with candor, wide experience and familiarity with modern teaching, they examine the riches greeting the biographer willing to think more deeply about biography: its inner workings and rationale in a world still hungry for fact and truth.
Contributors are: Nigel Hamilton, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, Emma McEwin, Melanie Nolan, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Eric Palmen, Hans Renders, Carl Rollyson, David T. Roth, István M. Szijártó, Jeffrey Tyssens, and David Veltman.
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Contents
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: Scaffolding a House: Biography and the Role of Chance in a Life
Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson
Section 1: Reflections on Theory and Biography
1 The Deep-Rooted Fear of Theory Among Biographers
Hans Renders
2 The Missing Key: Theorizing Modern Historical Biography
Nigel Hamilton
3 'Have They Caught the Cambridge Structuralist Yet?' Biography Writing and the Fear of Theory
Jeffrey Tyssens
4 Biography and Emotional Practice
Kerstin Maria Pahl
5 The Great Individual in History: Historicising Historian's Biographical Practice
Melanie Nolan
6 The Backside of the Biography: Microhistory as a Research Tool
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
Section 2: Case Studies
7 Beyond Verification and Falsification: Biography as Go-Between of Historical Truth
Eric Palmen
8 History That Addresses Biography: Ethics and the Vatican
Hans Renders
9 Brief Lives: A Microhistorical Approach
David T. Roth
10 'Une génération spontanée': Kandinsky Seen Through the Eyes of Felix de Boeck (1898-1995)
David Veltman
11 Template for a Biography: What's the Sense of Theory
Hans Renders
12 Building a Better Biography
Carl Rollyson
13 Capturing the Subject: Virginia Woolf 's Battle with Biographical Boundaries
Emma McEwin
Section 3: Dossier on Microhistory
14 The Representativeness of a Reputation: A 'Third Wave' in Microhistory
Hans Renders and David Veltman
15 The Devil Is in the Detail: What Is a 'Great Historical Question'?
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
16 Arguments for Microhistory 2.0
István M. Szijártó
17 Exceptions That Prove the Rule: Biography, Microhistory and Marginals
Hans Renders
Bibliography
Index
