Biography across the Digitized Globe : Essays in Honour of Hans Renders (Biography Studies)

Veltman, David (EDT)/ Meister, Daniel R. (EDT)

Brill（2025/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 302 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004726697

Full Description

This volume is dedicated to Professor Hans Renders, founder of the Biography Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Throughout his academic career, Renders witnessed a reflexive turn in historical research: biographers became more open about the limitations of their sources, and the subjective nature of their selection. Over this same period, however, the availability of digital sources has increased exponentially, which has profound implications for biographical research and the transnational framework used to approach the genre. Through its thirteen thought-provoking essays, this work seeks to make an intervention in Biography Studies by bringing the well-developed reflexive tradition to bear on the pressing challenge of proliferating digitized sources.

Contents

Contents

Foreword: a Celebration of Professor Hans Renders

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Turn Every Electronic Page? Biographers Confront the Digital Turn

 David Veltman and Daniel R. Meister

Part 1: Theory - Transnational Microhistory

1 Microhistorical Approaches and Playing with the Scales of History: a Microbiography of Historians' Biographical Methods

 Melanie Nolan

2 Microhistory and Everyday Life Experience in a Biographical Writing: Representation in History

 Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon

3 The Scandalous Abbé Rioust: the Multiple Careers of an Exiled (Ex-)Priest in the Era of Revolutions

 Jeffrey Tyssens

4 Transnationally Informed Biography: Finding Abraham Kuyper in the Dissemination of a South African Christian-Nationalist

 Jacques Pienaar

Part 2: Archives - Bits and Traces

5 Twisting: Loss, Illness, and Dying in Words

What I Have Taken from Hans Renders

 Marlene Kadar

6 Facts and Signs of Life: Bits, Biographies, Life Writing, Biobits, and the Environment

 Craig Howes

7 "Creating Science from One's Own Biography": Networks and Clues in the Archival Afterlife of Helmuth Plessner

 David Veltman

8 Traces and Clues in a Fairytale: Research Based on a "Weird" Historical Source

 Jana Wohlmuth Markupová

Part 3: Practice - Teaching and Writing Biography

9 The Golden Age Is Over: AI and the Future of Biography

 Nigel Hamilton

10 Dissecting "A Funny Thing": Taste, Biography, and the Case of Nanne Tepper

 Lodewijk Verduin

11 In Retrospective: the Concept of Subject Agency According to Virginia Woolf's "The New Biography"

 Maryam Thirriard

Conclusion: Biography across Borders: Broadening Biography Studies

 Daniel R. Meister

Index