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200 10$aBiography $ea brief history /$fNigel Hamilton
210   $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (358 p.) 
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and index.
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPrologue -- $t1. Evolutionary Biography -- $t2. Hagiography -- $t3. The Renaissance of Biography -- $t4. Victorian Pseudobiography -- $t5. The Early Twentieth Century -- $t6. The Rise of Film -- $t7. The People's War -- $t8. Death of the Author -- $t9. New Directions -- $t10. Biography Comes of Age -- $t11. Biography on Trial -- $t12. The Miner's Canary -- $t13. Biography Today -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex
330   $aFor what purpose and for whom has biographical pursuit endured, and how does it play such a contested, popular role in contemporary Western culture, from biopics to blogs, memoirs to docudramas? Award-winning biographer Hamilton addresses these questions in an incisive and vivid narrative that will appeal to students of human nature and self-representation across the arts and sciences.
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