Theoretical Discussions of Biography

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Copyright

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Contents

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Foreword

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Acknowledgements

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Note on the Revised and Augmented Edition

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List of Illustrations

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Notes on Contributors

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1 Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies

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Section 1:Historiography of Biography Studies

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2 Towards Traditions and Nations

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3 Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction

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4 The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century

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Section 2: Biography and History

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5 The Uses of Biography

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6 The Role of the Individual in History: Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

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7 Contemporary Values of Life: Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century

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Section 3: Biography and Microhistory

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8 What Is Micro in Microhistory?

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9 Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge

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10 The Limits of Representativeness: Biography, Life Writing, and Microhistory

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11 Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It

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Section 4: Biography and Life Writing

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12 Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing

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13 The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing

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14 Coming to Terms: Life Writing – from Genre to Critical Practice

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Appendices

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15 Biography

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16 Sex in Biography

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17 The Personal in the Political Biography

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18 The Biographical Method

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19 Why Genealogy and Biography are Not Kin

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20 A Nobel Prize for Biography

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Bibliography

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Index

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