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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
INTRODUCTION
1 The biographical turn: Biography as critical method in the humanities and in society
SECTION 1: The Biographical turn in the Humanities
2 Biography as corrective
3 The plurality of the past: Historical time and the rediscovery of biography
4 The life is never over: Biography as a microhistorical approach
5 Personalised history: On biofiction, source criticism and the critical value of biography
6 The life effect: Literature studies and the biographical perspective
7 Biography as a concept of thought: On the premises of biographical research and narrative
SECTION 2: The biographical turn in fields of knowledge
8 Biographies as multipliers: The First World War as turning point in the lives of modernist artists
9 ‘Honest politics’: A biographical perspective on economic expertise as a political style
10 Rediscovering agency in the Atlantic: A biographical approach linking entrepreneurial spirit and overseas companies
11 Building bridges to past centuries: Religion and empathy in early modern biography
12 Palatable and unpalatable leaders: Apartheid and post-Apartheid Afrikaner biography
SECTION 3: The biographical turn in academia and society
13 Biography is not a selfie: Authorisation as the creeping transition from autobiography to biography
14 What are we turning from? Research and ideology in biography and life writing
15 Liberation from low dark space: Biography beside and beyond the academy
16 From academic historian to popular biographer: Musings on the practical poetics of biography
Bibliography
Index
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