Melanie Nolan

Biography

An Historiography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Biography: An historiography examines how Western historians have used biography since the 19th century to the present - considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781138387232
• ISBN-10: 1138387231
• Artikelnr.: 59999075

Autorenporträt

Melanie Nolan is Professor of History, Director of the National Centre of Biography, and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, in the School of History, at the Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

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