Biography across the digitized globe : essays in honour of Hans Renders / edited by David Veltman, Daniel R. Meister.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Veltman, David, editor.

Meister, Daniel R., editor.

Renders, Hans, honoree.

Series:

Biography studies ; v. 4.

Biography studies, 2468-2497 ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography as a literary form.

Biography--Study and teaching.

Biography.

Renders, Hans.

biography (general genre).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Essays in honour of Hans Renders

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025]

Summary:

"This volume is dedicated to Professor Hans Renders, founder of the Biography Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Throughout his academic career, Renders witnessed a reflexive turn in historical research: biographers became more open about the limitations of their sources, and the subjective nature of their selection. During the last two decades, however, the availability of digital sources increased exponentially, which has profound implications for biographical research and the transnational framework used to approach the genre. Through its thirteen thought-provoking essays, this work seeks to make an intervention in Biography Studies by bringing the well-developed reflexive tradition to bear on the pressing challenge of proliferating digitized sources"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword : a celebration of professor Hans Renders

Introduction : turn every electronic page? Biographers confront the digital turn / David Veltman and Daniel R. Meister

Microhistorical approaches and playing with the scales of history : a microbiography of historians' biographical methods / Melanie Nolan

Microhistory and everyday life experience in a biographical writing : representation in history / Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon

The scandalous Abbé Rioust : the multiple careers of an exiled (ex-)priest in the era of revolutions / Jeffrey Tyssens

Transnationally informed biography : finding Abraham Kuyper in the dissemination of a South African Christian-nationalist / Jacques Pienaar

Twisting : loss, illness, and dying in words what I have taken from Hans Renders / Marlene Kadar

Facts and signs of life : bits, biographies, life writing, biobits, and the environment / Craig Howes

"Creating science from one's own biography" : networks and clues in the archival afterlife of Helmuth Plessner / David Veltman

Traces and clues in a fairytale : research based on a "weird" historical source / Jana Wohlmuth Markupová

The golden age is over : AI and the future of biography / Nigel Hamilton

Dissecting "a funny thing" : taste, biography, and the case of Nanne Tepper / Lodewijk Verduin

In retrospective : the concept of subject agency according to Virginia Woolf's "the new biography" / Maryam Thirriard

Conclusion : biography across borders : broadening biography studies / Daniel R. Meister.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Biography across the digitized globe

ISBN:

9004726713

9789004726710

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004726710 DOI

Access Restriction:

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