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Biography : a brief history / Nigel Hamilton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.Description: 345 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9780674024663 (alk. paper)
  • 0674024664 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 907.2 22
LOC classification:
  • CT31 .H36 2007
Contents:
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.
Item type: Delbert W. Baker Special Leadership Collection
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library Delbert W. Baker Special Leadership Collection DWB Special Leadership Collection CT 31 .H36 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA20692 Available AUA20692

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.