Theoretical Discussions of Biography -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Revised and Augmented Edition -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies -- Section 1:Historiography of Biography Studies -- 2 Towards Traditions and Nations -- 3 Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction -- 4 The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century -- Section 2: Biography and History -- 5 The Uses of Biography -- 6 The Role of the Individual in History: Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century -- 7 Contemporary Values of Life: Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century -- Section 3: Biography and Microhistory -- 8 What Is Micro in Microhistory? -- 9 Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge -- 10 The Limits of Representativeness: Biography, Life Writing, and Microhistory -- 11 Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It -- Section 4: Biography and Life Writing -- 12 Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing -- 13 The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing -- 14 Coming to Terms: Life Writing - from Genre to Critical Practice -- Appendices -- 15 Biography -- 16 Sex in Biography -- 17 The Personal in the Political Biography -- 18 The Biographical Method -- 19 Why Genealogy and Biography are Not Kin -- 20 A Nobel Prize for Biography -- Bibliography -- Index.