Different Lives

Global Perspectives on Biography in Public Cultures and Societies
Herausgeber: Renders, Hans; Veltman, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Internationally acclaimed biographies are mostly written by Anglophone biographers. How does biography function as a public genre in the rest of the world? Different Lives offers a global perspective on the biographical tradition by seventeen scholars of fifteen different countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 563g
• ISBN-13: 9789004428126
• ISBN-10: 9004428127
• Artikelnr.: 59293859

Autorenporträt

Hans Renders is Professor in History and Theory of Biography at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He has written two biographies and has published on biographical theory in various international journals. He is the series editor of Biography Studies at Brill. David Veltman works at the Biography Institute (University of Groningen) on a PhD thesis about the artist Felix de Boeck. David has an MA in modern Dutch literature. He has published before in Biography and Australian Journal of Biography and History.