| Description |
ix, 153 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Theory and history |
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Theory and history.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Historians and the Question of Biography -- Introduction -- Biography and history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Thomas Carlyle and the idea of biography as history -- The professionalisation of history -- Marxist history and the question of biography -- Biography and history in the twentieth century -- Changing ideas about the role of biography in history -- 2.A History of Biography -- Introduction -- The emergence of modern biography -- ̀How delicate, decent is English biography, bless its mealy mouth!': the changing pattern of biography in the nineteenth century -- The ̀new' biography and the inner life in the early twentieth century -- Biography and the quest for understanding -- Feminist impulses -- 3.Collective Biography -- Introduction -- Encyclopaedias and universal biography -- National biography in the nineteenth century -- Women and collective biography -- Prosopography -- Contemporary dictionaries of biography -- From collective to group biography -- Group biography -- 4.Auto/Biography and Life Writing -- Introduction -- Life writing -- Auto/biography -- History and autobiography -- Historian's autobiographies -- 5.Interpreting and Constructing Lives -- Introduction -- The biographer's craft -- Biography and psychoanalysis -- Texts and performances -- 6.Changing Biographical Practices -- Introduction -- The gender of biography -- New biographical subjects -- The individual and the wider world -- Conclusion -- History and the individual life |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Biography.
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Historiography -- Methodology.
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| ISBN |
1137611162 (hardback) |
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9781137611161 (hardback) |
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9781137611192 (papeback) |
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