{"product_id":"biography-9781138387249","title":"Biography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBiography: An Historiography\u003c\/em\u003e examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present  considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A hugely enjoyable read, deeply researched and knowledgeable, with an effective mix of structure, theory, and personality, as befits its subject. Very wide-ranging, it’s peppered with names and connections. In squaring a number of circles, Biography: a Historiography is a single-handed refutation of any misgivings historians may have as to the biographer and their craft.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr Martin Farr\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewcastle University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[I]t’s a big, authoritative work with a dazzling range of research and reference, and passionate engagement with ideas and issues. A book to think with!\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor Richard Holmes, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFRSL, FBA, OBE, Hon. Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a most welcome addition to the literature on biography which will be attractive to readers in several different disciplines. Historians will like its very firm grounding in the development of historical writing since the nineteenth century; students of literature will learn much from its studies of the Bloomsbury biographers and life writing today; while social scientists will find much to explore and applaud in its confident discussion of concepts and methodology. The discussion of biography is integrated with the discussion of general historiography. Our pre-existing historiographical familiarity helps us to appreciate the novelty of the author’s biographical arguments all the more.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Lawrence Goldman, \u003ci\u003eOxford University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There are numerous monographs on biography as a genre but no single text dealing with historians and biography, and yet historians are a major producer of biographies. Melanie Nolan’s \u003ci\u003eBiography: A Historiography\u003c\/i\u003e provides the first systematic and focussed consideration of historians’ biographical approaches and practices. It is a far ranging and much needed work, competently executed and underpinned by an impressive array of research.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Douglas Munro, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Queensland, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: \"It’s Just a Biography\": historicising historians’ biographical debates 2. Victorians’ debate over heroism: the role of the significant individual in history 3. Post-Victorian debates over artistic and scientific approaches to biography 4. Historians and the problem of other minds in biography 5. Cold War debates over individuals in history; counterfactuals, contingency and causation in biography 6. Postwar debates over atomizing lives 7. Late Twentieth Century debate over microhistory and the singularization of history 8. Current debates about life writing and historians’ ego histoire 9. Conclusion: Trevelyan’s empiricism and historians’ biographical practices\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019489214807,"sku":"9781138387249","price":32.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138387249.jpg?v=1750780423","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/biography-9781138387249","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}