ISBN:
9781760461430
,
176046144X
,
1760461431
,
9781760461447
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 315 pages)
Series Statement:
ANU.Lives series in biography
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Clio's lives
Keywords:
Historians Biography
;
Authorship in literature Biography
;
Historians Biography
;
Historians
;
Authorship in literature
;
Historians
;
Biography: general
;
Biography: historical, political and military
;
Authorship in literature
;
Historians
;
Australia
;
North America
;
Biography
;
HISTORY ; General
;
Autobiography: historical, political and military
;
Biography and True Stories
Abstract:
1. Introduction / Doug Munro and John G. Reid -- Autobiographies of Historians. 2. Writing history/writing about yourself: what's the difference? / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- 3. Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: three autobiographies of childhood and coming of age / Doug Munro and Geoffrey Gray -- 4. The female gaze: Australian women historians' autobiographies / Ann Moyal -- Nation-Defining Authors. 5. 'A gigantic confession of life': autobiography, 'national awakening' and the invention of Manning Clark / Mark McKenna -- 6. Ceci n'est pas Ramsay Cook: a biographical reconnaissance / Donald Wright -- Discipline-defining authors. 7. Intersecting and contrasting lives: G. M. Trevelyan and Lytton Strachey / Alastair MacLachlan -- 8. An ingrained activist: the early years of Raphael Samuel / Sophie Scott-Brown -- 9. Pursuing the antipodean: Bernard Smith, identity and history / Sheridan Palmer -- Collective Biography. 10. Australian historians networking, 1914-1973 / Geoffrey Bolton -- 11. Country and kin calling? Keith Hancock, the National Dictionary Collaboration, and the promotion of life writing in Australia / Melanie Nolan -- 12. Imperial women: collective biography, gender and Yale-trained historians / John G. Reid -- 13. Concluding reflections / Barbara Caine
Abstract:
1. Introduction / Doug Munro and John G. Reid -- Autobiographies of Historians. 2. Writing history/writing about yourself: what's the difference? / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- 3. Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: three autobiographies of childhood and coming of age / Doug Munro and Geoffrey Gray -- 4. The female gaze: Australian women historians' autobiographies / Ann Moyal -- Nation-Defining Authors. 5. 'A gigantic confession of life': autobiography, 'national awakening' and the invention of Manning Clark / Mark McKenna -- 6. Ceci n'est pas Ramsay Cook: a biographical reconnaissance / Donald Wright -- Discipline-defining authors. 7. Intersecting and contrasting lives: G. M. Trevelyan and Lytton Strachey / Alastair MacLachlan -- 8. An ingrained activist: the early years of Raphael Samuel / Sophie Scott-Brown -- 9. Pursuing the antipodean: Bernard Smith, identity and history / Sheridan Palmer -- Collective Biography. 10. Australian historians networking, 1914-1973 / Geoffrey Bolton -- 11. Country and kin calling? Keith Hancock, the National Dictionary Collaboration, and the promotion of life writing in Australia / Melanie Nolan -- 12. Imperial women: collective biography, gender and Yale-trained historians / John G. Reid -- 13. Concluding reflections / Barbara Caine
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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