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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-273) and index

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Theoretical discussions of biography

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edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan ; with a foreword by Nigel Hamilton

Egodocuments and history series, 7

approaches from history, microhistory and life writing

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 HamiltonForeword / 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