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Biography: An historiography examines how Western historians have used biography since the 19th century to the present - considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically.
Melanie Nolan is Professor of History, Director of the National Centre of Biography, and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, in the School of History, at the Australian National University.
1. Introduction: "It's Just a Biography": historicising historians' biographical debates 2. Victorians' debate over heroism: the role of the significant individual in history 3. Post-Victorian debates over artistic and scientific approaches to biography 4. Historians and the problem of other minds in biography 5. Cold War debates over individuals in history; counterfactuals, contingency and causation in biography 6. Postwar debates over atomizing lives 7. Late Twentieth Century debate over microhistory and the singularization of history 8. Current debates about life writing and historians' ego histoire 9. Conclusion: Trevelyan's empiricism and historians' biographical practices