'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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Canberra
ANU Press
2019, 2019©2019
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| Series: | ANU.Lives series in biography
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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' recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism. Exploring their paths forward, the chapters of this book collectively make a powerful argument for the continued value and importance of large-scale collaborative biographical dictionary research |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 229 pages |