Biography : an historiography /: an historiography. (2023)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Biography : an historiography /: an historiography. (2023)
- Main Title:
- Biography : an historiography
- 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.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.754186
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