Biography : an historiography /: an historiography. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Melanie Nolan.
• Authors: Nolan, Melanie
• Contents: 1. Introduction: "It’s Just a Biography": historicising historians’ biographical debates 2. Victorians’ debate over heroism: the role of the significant individual in history 3. Post-Victorian debates over artistic and scientific approaches to biography 4. Historians and the problem of other minds in biography 5. Cold War debates over individuals in history; counterfactuals, contingency and causation in biography 6. Postwar debates over atomizing lives 7. Late Twentieth Century debate over microhistory and the singularization of history 8. Current debates about life writing and historians’ ego histoire 9. Conclusion: Trevelyan’s empiricism and historians’ biographical practices
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 808.06692; Biography -- Research -- Methodology; Biography as a literary form; Biography -- Philosophy; Europe -- Biography -- History and criticism; United States -- Biography -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429760839; 9780429760846
• Related ISBNs: 9781138387232; 9781138387249
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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