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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of contributors
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 The biographical turn: Biography as critical method in the humanities and in society
• SECTION 1: The Biographical turn in the Humanities
• 2 Biography as corrective
• 3 The plurality of the past: Historical time and the rediscovery of biography
• 4 The life is never over: Biography as a microhistorical approach
• 5 Personalised history: On biofiction, source criticism and the critical value of biography
• 6 The life effect: Literature studies and the biographical perspective
• 7 Biography as a concept of thought: On the premises of biographical research and narrative
• SECTION 2: The biographical turn in fields of knowledge
• 8 Biographies as multipliers: The First World War as turning point in the lives of modernist artists
• 9 ‘Honest politics’: A biographical perspective on economic expertise as a political style
• 10 Rediscovering agency in the Atlantic: A biographical approach linking entrepreneurial spirit and overseas companies
• 11 Building bridges to past centuries: Religion and empathy in early modern biography
• 12 Palatable and unpalatable leaders: Apartheid and post-Apartheid Afrikaner biography
• SECTION 3: The biographical turn in academia and society
• 13 Biography is not a selfie: Authorisation as the creeping transition from autobiography to biography
• 14 What are we turning from? Research and ideology in biography and life writing
• 15 Liberation from low dark space: Biography beside and beyond the academy
• 16 From academic historian to popular biographer: Musings on the practical poetics of biography
• Bibliography
• Index