Biography : a brief history

Title:

ISBN:

9780674038226

9780674034716

9780674264267

9780674024663

Personal Author:

Hamilton, Nigel, author.

Publication Information New:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Evolutionary biography -- Hagiography -- The renaissance of biography -- Victorian pseudobiography -- The early twentieth century -- The rise of film -- The people's war -- Death of the author -- New directions -- Biography comes of age -- Biography on trial -- The miner's canary -- Biography today.

Abstract:

For what purpose and for whom has biographical pursuit endured, and how does it play such a contested, popular role in contemporary Western culture, from biopics to blogs, memoirs to docudramas? Award-winning biographer Hamilton addresses these questions in an incisive and vivid narrative that will appeal to students of human nature and self-representation across the arts and sciences.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

Biography as a literary form.

Biography.

Biographie (Genre littéraire)

Biographies.

biographies (literary works)

biography (general genre)

HISTORY -- Historiography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.