- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction
- 1 The Proper Study?
- 2 From Biography to Hagiography: Some Stable Patterns in the Greek and Latin Tradition of Lives, including Lives of the Saints
- 3 Biography and Autobiography in the Italian Renaissance
- 4 National Biography and the Arts of Memory: From Thomas Fuller to Colin Matthew
- 5 <i>From Eulogy to Biography: The French Academic</i> Eloge
- 6 Adding Stones to the Edifice: Patterns of German Biography
- 7 <i>Shaping Victorian Biography: From Anecdote to</i> Bildungsroman
- 8 Sainte-Beuve: Biography, Criticism, and the Literary
- 9 Yury Tynyanov and the ‘Literary Fact’
- 10 Freud and the Art of Biography
- 11 The Newness of the ‘New Biography’: Biographical Theory and Practice in the Early Twentieth Century
- 12 The Biographer as Archaeologist
- 13 Writing Lives Forwards: A Case for Strictly Chronological Biography
- 14 Shaping the Truth
- 15 Sartre’s Existentialist Biographies: Search for a Method
- 16 A Life on Film
- 17 Gender, Biography, and the Public Sphere
- 18 ‘The Solace of Doubt’? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century
- Index
‘The Solace of Doubt’? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century
‘The Solace of Doubt’? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century
- Chapter:
- (p.320) (p.321) 18 ‘The Solace of Doubt’? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century
- Source:
- Mapping Lives
- Author(s):
James Walter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter discusses some of the trends in the twentieth century that have emerged in publications on how to write biographies, and emphasizes the trends of the past twenty years. Its focus is on English-language biography. It is suggested that one can understand the present debates as a rethinking of the suppositions of twentieth-century modernist biography.
Keywords: trends, twentieth century, biographies, English-language biography, modernist biography, suppositions
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction
- 1 The Proper Study?
- 2 From Biography to Hagiography: Some Stable Patterns in the Greek and Latin Tradition of Lives, including Lives of the Saints
- 3 Biography and Autobiography in the Italian Renaissance
- 4 National Biography and the Arts of Memory: From Thomas Fuller to Colin Matthew
- 5 <i>From Eulogy to Biography: The French Academic</i> Eloge
- 6 Adding Stones to the Edifice: Patterns of German Biography
- 7 <i>Shaping Victorian Biography: From Anecdote to</i> Bildungsroman
- 8 Sainte-Beuve: Biography, Criticism, and the Literary
- 9 Yury Tynyanov and the ‘Literary Fact’
- 10 Freud and the Art of Biography
- 11 The Newness of the ‘New Biography’: Biographical Theory and Practice in the Early Twentieth Century
- 12 The Biographer as Archaeologist
- 13 Writing Lives Forwards: A Case for Strictly Chronological Biography
- 14 Shaping the Truth
- 15 Sartre’s Existentialist Biographies: Search for a Method
- 16 A Life on Film
- 17 Gender, Biography, and the Public Sphere
- 18 ‘The Solace of Doubt’? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century
- Index
