Biography :

Hamilton, Nigel.

Biography : a brief history / Nigel Hamilton. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. - 345 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and index.

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.

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Biography as a literary form.

CT31 / .H36 2007

907.2