Clio's lives : biographies and autobiographies of historians / edited by Doug Munro and John G. Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munro, Doug., Editor.

Contributor:

Munro, Doug, editor.

Reid, John G., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historians--America--Biography.

Historians.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2017

Canberra, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Including contributions from leading scholars in the field from both Australia and North America, this collection explores diverse approaches to writing the lives of historians and ways of assessing the importance of doing so. Beginning with the writing of autobiographies by historians, the volume then turns to biographical studies, both of historians whose writings were in some sense nation-defining and those who may be regarded as having had a major influence on defining the discipline of history. The final section explores elements of collective biography, linking these to the formation of historical networks. A concluding essay by Barbara Caine offers a critical appraisal of the study of historians biographies and autobiographies to date, and maps out likely new directions for future work.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Doug Munro and John G. Reid

Autobiographies of Historians. 2. Writing history/writing about yourself: what's the difference? / Sheila Fitzpatrick

3. Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: three autobiographies of childhood and coming of age / Doug Munro and Geoffrey Gray

4. The female gaze: Australian women historians' autobiographies / Ann Moyal

Nation-Defining Authors. 5. 'A gigantic confession of life': autobiography, 'national awakening' and the invention of Manning Clark / Mark McKenna

6. Ceci n'est pas Ramsay Cook: a biographical reconnaissance / Donald Wright

Discipline-defining authors. 7. Intersecting and contrasting lives: G. M. Trevelyan and Lytton Strachey / Alastair MacLachlan

8. An ingrained activist: the early years of Raphael Samuel / Sophie Scott-Brown

9. Pursuing the antipodean: Bernard Smith, identity and history / Sheridan Palmer

Collective Biography. 10. Australian historians networking, 1914-1973 / Geoffrey Bolton

11. Country and kin calling? Keith Hancock, the National Dictionary Collaboration, and the promotion of life writing in Australia / Melanie Nolan

12. Imperial women: collective biography, gender and Yale-trained historians / John G. Reid

13. Concluding reflections / Barbara Caine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 9, 2018).

ISBN:

9781760461447

176046144X