Different lives : : global perspectives on biography in public cultures and societies / / edited by Hans Renders, David Veltman.

"Internationally acclaimed biographies are almost always written by British or American biographers. But what is the state of the art of biography in other parts of the world? Introduced by Richard Holmes, the volume "Different Lives" offers a global perspective: seventeen scholars vi...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Biography studies, volume 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:"Many of the contributors to this volume presented their papers at the conference Different Lives: Global Perspectives on Biography in Public Cultures and Societies. This conference was organized in September 2018 at the University of Groningen by Hans Renders, Madelon Nanninga-Franssen and David Veltman, with support of the Biography Institute, the Biography Society and the Biographers International Organization."--Acknowledgements.
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