Mapping Lives

• The Proper Study?Gender, Biography, and the Public SphereFrom Biography to Hagiography: Some Stable Patterns in the Greek and Latin Tradition of Lives, including Lives of the SaintsBiography and Autobiography in the Italian RenaissanceNational Biography and the Arts of Memory: From Thomas Fuller to Colin MatthewFrom Eulogy to Biography: The French Academic ElogeAdding Stones to the Edifice: Patterns of German BiographyShaping Victorian Biography: From Anecdote to BildungsromanSainte-Beuve: Biography, Criticism and the LiteraryYury Tynyanov and the 'Literary Fact'Freud and the Art of BiographyThe Newness of the 'New Biography': Biographical Theory and Practice in the Early Twentieth CenturyThe Biographer as ArchaeologistWriting Lives Forwards: A Case for Strictly Chronological BiographyShaping the TruthSartre's Existential Biographies: A Search for a MethodA Life on Film'The Solace of Doubt'? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century

Review from previous edition Absorbing and informative Times Literary Supplement 30/08/02 An impressive collection of essays, some by well-known practitioners The Economist 13/12/02