Biography an historiography / Melanie Nolan.
| Author/creator | Nolan, Melanie |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | "It's Just a Biography" : historicising historians' biographical debates -- Victorians' debate over heroism : the role of the significant individual in history -- Post-Victorian debates over artistic and scientific approaches to biography -- Historians and the problem of other minds in biography -- Cold War debates over individuals in history : counterfactuals, contingency and causation in biography -- Postwar debates over atomizing lives -- Late twentieth century debate over microhistory and the singularization of history -- Current debates about life writing and historians' ego histoire -- Trevelyan's empiricism and historians' biographical practices. |
| Abstract | "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. This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence including but not limited the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth. This volume will be essential for to postgraduates and historians studying biography"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version : Nolan, Melanie. Biography London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 9781138387232 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022046491 |
| ISBN | 9780429426391 (ebk) |
| ISBN | (hbk) |
| ISBN | (pbk) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |