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Fox Karen |
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Titolo |
'True biographies of nations?' : the cultural journeys of dictionaries of national biography / / edited by Karen Fox |
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ANU Press, 2019 |
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Acton, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University Press, , 2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Biography |
Great Britain Biography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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 |
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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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