Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing: 7 (Egodocuments and History Series, 7) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004270140 ISBN 13: 9789004270145

Publisher: Brill, 2014

Synopsis

Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections between biography and the fields of microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing illuminate key challenges and problems in studying individual lives.
Different perspectives are provided on the ways in which biography contributes to scholarship in the humanities in general and academic historiography in particular. The contributing authors are academic experts in these fields and include Richard D. Brown, Carlo Ginzburg, Nigel Hamilton, Marlene Kadar, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Matti Peltonen, and James Walter.

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About the Author

Hans Renders, Ph.D. (1998), University of Tilburg, is Professor History and Theory of Biography and director of the Biography Institute, both at the University of Groningen. He has published studies on the theme of biography in various international journals.

Binne de Haan, is a Ph.D. candidate at the Biography Institute of the University of Groningen. In his thesis he analyses the relationship between biography and historiography, specifically microhistory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004270140
• ISBN 13: 9789004270145
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294
• Editor: Renders Hans, De Haan Binne