A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. By John F. Woolverton with James D. Bratt. Library of Religious Biography Series. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2019. xvii + 291 pp. $32.00 hardcover.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640720000566
Abstract: forces John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State under President Dwight Eisenhower, into being a spiritual descendent of Jonathan Edwards, when in fact the diplomat had no ties with evangelicalism but was a liberal Protestant. Such… read more here.
Keywords: religious biography; biography; foreign policy; american foreign ... See more keywords
From Typology and Biography to Multiplicity: Bracers as ‘Process Objects’
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DOI: 10.1017/s0959774323000094
Abstract: In this article we put forward an alternative account of the famous wristguards, or bracers, of the European Early Bronze Age. Combining new materialism with empirical microwear analysis, we study 15 examples from Britain in… read more here.
Keywords: bracers process; multiplicity bracers; biography multiplicity; biography ... See more keywords
Critical Notice: James A Harris’ Hume: an intellectual biography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2017.1332946
Abstract: Abstract James Harris’s new Hume biography offers, among other things, ‘a series of conjectures as to what Hume’s intentions were in writing in the particular ways that he did about human nature, politics, economics, history,… read more here.
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Musical Virtue, Professional Fortune, and Private Trauma in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Feminist Biography of Elisabetta de Gambarini (1730–65)
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DOI: 10.1080/01411896.2020.1735937
Abstract: ABSTRACT The composer Elisabetta de Gambarini (1730–65) led a life of public and private contradictions. Publicly, she was renowned as both a professional performer and one of the first female composers to publish in Britain.… read more here.
Keywords: gambarini; gambarini 1730; elisabetta gambarini; biography ... See more keywords
Teaching Fail: The Life-Writing Scholar's Cameo Appearance
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DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2017.1241519
Abstract: My colleague teaches an undergraduate elective subject on eighteenth-century English literature, with the themes of sex and satire. He wants to set a whore biography (which fits the theme of sex) and wonders whether I,… read more here.
Keywords: writing scholar; fail life; teaching fail; biography ... See more keywords
‘We who strive for the foundation of a principle’: feminism and suffrage in the biography of Bessie Parkes Belloc
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DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2020.1745399
Abstract: ABSTRACT Bessie Rayner Parkes (later Belloc, 1829–1925) was a central figure in British women’s rights activism during the 1850s and 1860s. She was founding editor of the feminist English Woman’s Journal and one of the… read more here.
Keywords: feminism suffrage; suffrage; bessie; biography ... See more keywords
Biography and its social world: the ‘Stele of Lord Lu’
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DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2020.1824399
Abstract: ABSTRACT Sinologists have traditionally read Chinese biographies as repositories of facts about their subjects, but their pedagogical function means biographies can tell us not just about their subjects, but also their intended audience(s) and the… read more here.
Keywords: audience; biography; stele lord; world stele ... See more keywords
Constructing Marx in the history of ideas*
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DOI: 10.1080/23801883.2017.1332287
Abstract: ABSTRACT Publication of a new general biography of Marx is a reminder that no intellectual biography exists. This is an extraordinary omission, and the present article offers a draft outline of such a biography. Some… read more here.
Keywords: marx history; constructing marx; history; biography ... See more keywords
Biography, Historiography, and Modes of Philosophizing: The Tradition of Collective Biography in Early Modern Europe. Patrick Baker. ed. The Renaissance Society of America Texts and Studies Series 7. Leiden: Brill, 2017. xiv + 412 pp. $149.
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DOI: 10.1086/700527
Abstract: the main focus of Roberta Anderson’s description of Noël de Caron’s audiences with James VI/I. Labeling galleries and gardens as marginal spaces betrays Anderson’s lack of engagement with recent work on both diplomatic ceremonial and… read more here.
Keywords: renaissance; volume; series; biography ... See more keywords
The theological role of biography
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DOI: 10.1177/0040571x231171278
Abstract: This article explores the role of biography in Christian theology. For the greater part of Christian history, biography has played a key devotional and apologetic role by providing models of how the one life of… read more here.
Keywords: role; theology; theological role; biography ... See more keywords
Writing against Sophie: Mary Hays's Female Biography as Enlightenment Feminist Critique of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile
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DOI: 10.1215/00982601-3841384
Abstract: Abstract:Mary Hays's Female Biography (1803) stands as a good example of collective biography, and a landmark in women's history writing. Scholarly debate continues on whether this epic text further develops Enlightenment feminism or marks a… read more here.
Keywords: jacques rousseau; mary hays; biography; hays female ... See more keywords