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100 1 _aCaine, Barbara.
_969041
245 1 0 _aBiography and History.
250 _a2nd ed.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Publishing Plc,
_c2018.
264 4 _c©2019.
300 _a1 online resource (163 pages)
336 _aText
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aComputermedien
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aOnline Resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aTheory and History Series
500 _aE-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
505 0 _aCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to Revised Edition -- Introduction -- 1 Historians and the Question of Biography -- Introduction -- Biography and history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Thomas Carlyle and the idea of biography as history -- The professionalisation of history -- Marxist history and the question of biography -- Biography and history in the twentieth century -- Changing ideas about the role of biography in history -- 2 A History of Biography -- Introduction -- The emergence of modern biography -- 'How delicate, decent is English biography, bless its mealy mouth!': the changing pattern of biography in the nineteenth century -- The 'new' biography and the inner life in the early twentieth century -- Biography and the quest for understanding -- Feminist impulses -- 3 Collective Biography -- Introduction -- Encyclopaedias and universal biography -- National biography in the nineteenth century -- Women and collective biography -- Prosopography -- Contemporary dictionaries of biography -- From collective to group biography -- Group biography -- 4 Auto/Biography and Life Writing -- Introduction -- Life writing -- Auto/biography -- History and autobiography -- Historian's autobiographies -- 5 Interpreting and Constructing Lives -- Introduction -- The biographer's craft -- Biography and psychoanalysis -- Texts and performances -- 6 Changing Biographical Practices -- Introduction -- The gender of biography -- New biographical subjects -- The individual and the wider world -- Conclusion -- History and the individual life -- Glossary -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.
520 _aLooking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives, this key textbook provides an original and insightful introduction to a growing and increasingly important area of historical scholarship and research.
653 _aBiography.
655 _aFernzugriff
_9230
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aCaine, Barbara
_tBiography and History
_dLondon : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2018
_z9781137611161
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6234783
_zVolltext
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999 _c74069
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