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    Contents

    Edward Saunders
    Introduction: Theory of Biography or Biography in Theory?  1

    Samuel Johnson
    The Rambler 60 (13 October 1750)   9
    Samuel Johnson
    The Idler 24 (24 November 1759)   13
    Caitríona Ní Dhúill
    Samuel Johnson’s Advice to Biographers   15

    Johann Gottfried Herder


    Fifth Letter on the Furtherance of Humanity (1793)   19
    Tobias Heinrich
    The Living Memory of Biography: Johann Gottfried Herder’s ‘Fifth Letter
    on the Furtherance of Humanity’   22

    Thomas Carlyle
    On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History [Extract] (1840)   27
    Caitríona Ní Dhúill
    World History as Heroic Biography: Thomas Carlyle’s ‘Great Men’   30

    Wilhelm Dilthey
    Plan for the Continuation of the Formation of the Historical World in the Human
    Sciences [Extract] [1904–10]   35
    Wilhelm Hemecker
    Between Art and Academia: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Theory of Biography   41

    Marcel Proust
    The Method of Sainte-Beuve [Extract] [1909]   47
    Edward Saunders
    Against Biographical Interpretation: Marcel Proust’s Attack
    on Sainte-Beuve   55

    Sigmund Freud
    Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood [Extract] (1910)   61
    Wilhelm Hemecker
    The Riddles of Sigmund Freud’s Leonardo – Biography, Case History,
    or …?   68
    VI   Contents

    Lytton Strachey
    Preface to Eminent Victorians (1918)   76
    Caitríona Ní Dhúill
    Biography as Exposure: Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians   78

    Boris Tomashevsky
    Literature and Biography (1923)   83
    Edward Saunders
    In Search of the Literary Fact: Boris Tomashevsky and the Limits
    of the Biographical Approach   91

    Sergei Tretiakov
    The Biography of the Object (1929)   97
    Bernhard Fetz
    In the Name of the Collective: Sergei Tretiakov’s Plea for a Biography
    of the Object   101

    Siegfried Kracauer
    The Biography as an Art Form of the New Bourgeoisie (1930)   107
    Esther Marian
    How to Make Employees Matter: Siegfried Kracauer’s Critique
    of Biography   112

    Virginia Woolf
    The New Biography (1927)   119
    Virginia Woolf
    The Art of Biography (1939)   124
    Manfred Mittermayer
    The Biographical Craft: Virginia Woolf’s Contributions to the Theory of
    Biography   131

    Stefan Zweig
    History as a Poetess (1943)   136
    Cornelius Mitterer
    Biography between Poetry and History: Stefan Zweig’s
    ‘History as a Poetess’   148
    Contents   VII

    Jean-Paul Sartre
    The Progressive-Regressive Method [Extract] (1957)   155
    Albert Dikovich
    Tracing the ‘projet original’: Jean-Paul Sartre’s Biographical
    Hermeneutics   166

    Roland Barthes
    Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Extract] (1971)   175
    David Österle
    A Life in Memory Fragments: Roland Barthes’s ‘Biographemes’   178

    James Clifford
    ‘Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners’: Ethnobiographical Prospects
    (1978)   186
    Edward Saunders
    Provincializing the Biographical Subject: James Clifford’s Manifesto for a ‘Less
    Centred’ Biography   198

    Carolyn Steedman
    Landscape for a Good Woman [Extract] (1986)   204
    Caitríona Ní Dhúill
    Intersectional Biography: Class, Gender, and Genre in Carolyn Steedman’s
    Landscape for a Good Woman   206

    Pierre Bourdieu
    The Biographical Illusion (1986)   210
    Marie Kolkenbrock
    Life as Trajectory: Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘The Biographical Illusion’ (1986)   217

    Gillian Beer
    Representing Women: Re-presenting the Past [Extract] (1989)   229
    Katharina Prager
    Things Mean Differently at Different Historical Moments: Re-thinking (Literary)
    History and Biography   238
    VIII   Contents

    David E. Nye
    Post-Thomas Edison (Recalling an Anti-Biography) (2003)   244
    Katharina Prager and Vanessa Hannesschläger
    From ‘Anti-Biography’ to Online Biography?   256

    Graeme Turner
    Approaching Celebrity Studies [Extract] (2010)   263
    Edward Saunders
    Biography and Celebrity Studies   269

    List of Sources   276

    Editorial Note   278

    Select Bibliography   279

    List of Contributors   287

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