'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 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references