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Biography across the Digitized Globe: Essays in Honour of Hans Renders: Biography Studies, cartea 4

David Veltman, Daniel R. Meister
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 apr 2025
This volume is dedicated to Professor Hans Renders, founder of the Biography Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Throughout his academic career, Renders witnessed a reflexive turn in historical research: biographers became more open about the limitations of their sources, and the subjective nature of their selection. Over this same period, however, the availability of digital sources has increased exponentially, which has profound implications for biographical research and the transnational framework used to approach the genre. Through its thirteen thought-provoking essays, this work seeks to make an intervention in Biography Studies by bringing the well-developed reflexive tradition to bear on the pressing challenge of proliferating digitized sources.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004726697
ISBN-10: 9004726691
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Biography Studies


Notă biografică

David Veltman, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Groningen and he works as keeper of the Digital Collections at the Special Collections department, University Library of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Daniel R. Meister, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of History at St. Thomas University and an Archivist (Private Sector Records) at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, in Canada.

Cuprins

Contents
Foreword: a Celebration of Professor Hans Renders
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Turn Every Electronic Page? Biographers Confront the Digital Turn
David Veltman and Daniel R. Meister

Part 1: Theory – Transnational Microhistory


1 Microhistorical Approaches and Playing with the Scales of History: a Microbiography of Historians’ Biographical Methods
Melanie Nolan

2 Microhistory and Everyday Life Experience in a Biographical Writing: Representation in History
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon

3 The Scandalous Abbé Rioust: the Multiple Careers of an Exiled (Ex-)Priest in the Era of Revolutions
Jeffrey Tyssens

4 Transnationally Informed Biography: Finding Abraham Kuyper in the Dissemination of a South African Christian-Nationalist
Jacques Pienaar

Part 2: Archives – Bits and Traces


5 Twisting: Loss, Illness, and Dying in Words
What I Have Taken from Hans Renders
Marlene Kadar

6 Facts and Signs of Life: Bits, Biographies, Life Writing, Biobits, and the Environment
Craig Howes

7 “Creating Science from One’s Own Biography”: Networks and Clues in the Archival Afterlife of Helmuth Plessner
David Veltman

8 Traces and Clues in a Fairytale: Research Based on a “Weird” Historical Source
Jana Wohlmuth Markupová

Part 3: Practice – Teaching and Writing Biography


9 The Golden Age Is Over: AI and the Future of Biography
Nigel Hamilton

10 Dissecting “A Funny Thing”: Taste, Biography, and the Case of Nanne Tepper
Lodewijk Verduin

11 In Retrospective: the Concept of Subject Agency According to Virginia Woolf’s “The New Biography”
Maryam Thirriard

Conclusion: Biography across Borders: Broadening Biography Studies
Daniel R. Meister

Index