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Biography and History

By Barbara Caine

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave
Year
2010
ISBN
1403987254, 9781403987259
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1063099 bytes)
Series
Theory and History
Pages
196\161
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-01-28 18:02:24

Description

Biography is the oldest way of writing about historical events, and one of the most popular. Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives, Biography and History:• is the first work to explore the significant place of biography within historical writing at the present time• combines a discussion of the history of biography with an extended analysis of contemporary approaches to biography• links developments within history to the wider interest in auto/biography and life-writing, and to literary methods• suggests that there are some distinctive features in the ways in which historians handle biography.Original and insightful, this is an essential introduction to a growing, and increasingly important, field of study and research.

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