‘True Biographies of Nations?’
The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography
Edited by: Karen Fox
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Description
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.
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781760462741
- ISBN (online):
- 9781760462758
- Publication date:
- Apr 2019
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/TBN.2019
- Series:
- Biography Series
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Biography & Autobiography, History
- Countries:
- Australia; Europe: United Kingdom; North America; World
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Part I: The Digital Age
- Individual Lives and National Truths: Locating Biographies within a National Encyclopedia (PDF, 0.1MB) – Jock Phillips doi
- The Irish World: How to Revise a Long-Standing Dictionary Project (PDF, 0.2MB) – Turlough O’Riordan doi
- What is National Biography For? Dictionaries and Digital History (PDF, 0.2MB) – Philip Carter doi
- Using Lives: The Australian Dictionary of Biography and Its Related Corpora (PDF, 0.2MB) – Melanie Nolan doi
Part II: The Representational Challenge
- Why Gender Matters: Fostering Diversity in the American National Biography with Lessons Learned from Notable American Women (PDF, 0.1MB) – Susan Ware doi
- Women and the Biographies of Nations: The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (PDF, 0.2MB) – Elizabeth Ewan doi
- An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography (PDF, 0.2MB) – Shino Konishi doi
- Writing the Nation in Two Languages: The Dictionary of Welsh Biography (PDF, 0.1MB) – Dafydd Johnston doi
Part III: The Transnational Dimension
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