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• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgement
• Preface to Revised Edition
• Introduction
• 1 Historians and the Question of Biography
• Introduction
• Biography and history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• Thomas Carlyle and the idea of biography as history
• The professionalisation of history
• Marxist history and the question of biography
• Biography and history in the twentieth century
• Changing ideas about the role of biography in history
• 2 A History of Biography
• Introduction
• The emergence of modern biography
• ‘How delicate, decent is English biography, bless its mealy mouth!’: the changing pattern of biography in the nineteenth century
• The ‘new’ biography and the inner life in the early twentieth century
• Biography and the quest for understanding
• Feminist impulses
• 3 Collective Biography
• Introduction
• Encyclopaedias and universal biography
• National biography in the nineteenth century
• Women and collective biography
• Prosopography
• Contemporary dictionaries of biography
• From collective to group biography
• Group biography
• 4 Auto/Biography and Life Writing
• Introduction
• Life writing
• Auto/biography
• History and autobiography
• Historian’s autobiographies
• 5 Interpreting and Constructing Lives
• Introduction
• The biographer’s craft
• Biography and psychoanalysis
• Texts and performances
• 6 Changing Biographical Practices
• Introduction
• The gender of biography
• New biographical subjects
• The individual and the wider world
• Conclusion
• History and the individual life
• Glossary
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Index