Biography and History

by Caine, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781403987266
• ISBN10: 1403987262
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

Biography is the oldest way of writing about historical events, and the most popular. Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives,Biography and Historyprovides an original and insightful introduction to a growing and increasingly important area of historical scholarship and research.

Author Biography

Barbara Caine is Director of the Centre for Biography and Life Writing and co-ordinator of masters programme in Biography and Life Writing at Monash University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Historians and the Question of Biography	p. 7
Introduction	p. 7
Biography and history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	p. 9
Thomas Carlyle and the idea of biography as history	p. 11
The professionalisation of history	p. 14
Marxist history and the question of biography	p. 17
Biography and history in the twentieth century	p. 19
Changing ideas about the role of biography in history	p. 23
A History of Biography	p. 27
Introduction	p. 27
The emergence of modern biography	p. 29
'How delicate, decent is English biography, bless its mealy mouth!': the changing pattern of biography in the nineteenth century	p. 33
The 'new' biography and the inner life in the early twentieth century	p. 38
Biography and the quest for understanding	p. 40
Feminist impulses	p. 44
Collective Biography	p. 47
Introduction	p. 47
Encyclopaedias and universal biography	p. 48
National biography in the nineteenth century	p. 50
Women and collective biography	p. 54
Prosopography	p. 56
Contemporary dictionaries of biography	p. 58
From collective to group biography	p. 59
Group Biography	p. 61
Auto/biography and Life Writing	p. 66
Introduction	p. 66
Life writing	p. 69
Auto/biography	p. 71
History and autobiography	p. 73
Historian's autobiographies	p. 80
Interpreting and Constructing Lives	p. 85
Introduction	p. 85
The biographer's craft	p. 86
Biography and psychoanalysis	p. 91
Texts and performances	p. 97
Changing Biographical Practices	p. 103
Introduction	p. 103
The gender of biography	p. 105
New biographical subjects	p. 111
The individual and the wider world	p. 116
Conclusion	p. 122
Glossary	p. 125
Notes	p. 128
Further Reading	p. 145
Index	p. 149
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