Product Description: Biography has been disregarded as less important although it is one of the most popular historiographical genres. This theoretical work on the topic of biography argues that the topic needs to be researched properly, and fills a gap in the literature by theoretically discussing it in its contemporary forms...read more

Product Description: 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...read more