The biographical turn : lives in history / edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan and Jonne Harmsma.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-213) and index.

The biographical turn: biography as critical method in the humanities and in society / Hans Renders, Binne de Haan and Jonne Harmsma -- The biographical turn in the humanities -- Biography as corrective / Nigel Hamilton -- The plurality of the past: historical time and the rediscovery of biography / Sabina Loriga -- The life is never over: biography as a microhistorical approach / Sigurur Gylfi Magnusson -- Personalized history: biofiction, source criticism and the topicality of biography / Binne de Haan -- The life effect: literature studies and the biographical perspective / Joanny Moulin -- Biography as a concept of thought: on the premises of biographical research and narrative / Christian Klein -- The biographical turn in fields of knowledge -- Biographies as multipliers: the First World War as turning point in the lives of modernist artists / Hans Renders and Sjoerd Van Faassen -- "Honest politics": a biographical perspective on economic expertise as a political style / Jonne Harmsma -- Rediscovering agency in the Atlantic: a biographical approach linking entrepreneurial spirit and overseas companies / Kaarle Wirta -- Building bridges to past centuries: religion and empathy in early modern biography / Enny de Bruijn -- Palatable and unpalatable leaders: apartheid and post-apartheid Afrikaner biography / Lindie Koorts -- The biographical turn in academia and society -- Biography is not a selfie: authorization as the creeping transition from autobiography to biography / Hans Renders -- What are we turning from?: research and ideology in biography and life writing / Craig Howes -- Liberation from low dark space: biography beside and beyond the academy / Carl Rollyson -- From academic historian to popular biographer: musings on the practical poetics of biography / Debby Applegate.