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'True biographies of nations?' : the cultural journeys of dictionaries of national biography /

Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English-speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects'...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Collectivité auteur: Australian National University Press
Autres auteurs: Fox, Karen (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Canberra : ANU Press, 2019.
Collection:ANU.Lives series in biography.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of Biography / Karen Fox
  • PART I: THE DIGITAL AGE. 2. Individual Lives and National Truths: Locating Biographies within a National Encyclopedia / Jock Phillips
  • 3. The Irish World: How to Revise a Long-Standing Dictionary Project / Turlough O'Riordan
  • 4. What is National Biography For? Dictionaries and Digital History / Philip Carter
  • 5. Using Lives: The Australian Dictionary of Biography and Its Related Corpora / Melanie Nolan
  • PART II: THE REPRESENTATIONAL CHALLENGE. 6. Why Gender Matters: Fostering Diversity in the American National Biography with Lessons Learned from Notable American Women / Susan Ware
  • 7. Women and the Biographies of Nations: The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women / Elizabeth Ewan
  • 8. An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography / Shino Konishi
  • 9. Writing the Nation in Two Languages: The Dictionary of Welsh Biography / Dafydd Johnston
  • PART III: THE TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSION. 10. Writing a Dictionary of World Biography / Barry Jones
  • 11. British National Biography and Global British Lives: From the DNB to the ODNB
  • and Beyond? / David Cannadine
  • 12. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography and the Irish Diaspora / David A. Wilson.