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Biographical Approach (biographical + approach)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	80%

Selected Abstracts

Inventing Adulthoods: A Biographical Approach to Youth Transitions

CHILD & FAMILY SOCIAL WORK, Issue 2 2008
Julia Palmer PhD Research Student: Youth Transitions, the Internet.
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Writing About Defoe: What is a Critical Biography?

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 2 2006
John Richetti
This essay considers traditional biographical approaches to literary figures and examines the validity of the connections that literary biography claims to make between life events and an author's writings. Proposing several exemplary instances of critical biographies of Samuel Johnson by Lipking and De Maria that focus instead on an author's writing, the essay compares their approaches to the assumptions that guide two biographies of Daniel Defoe by Novak and Backscheider. The essay examines Defoe's life and writings to explore just how his personal life can be clearly related to the writing, concluding that not enough is known about his life to warrant a purely biographical approach. Instead, the essay outlines a critical-biographical method that focuses on Defoe's writing and its political and social circumstances. [source]

Defining relationships and limiting power: two leaders of Australian nursing, 1868,1904,

NURSING INQUIRY, Issue 1 2000
Judith Godden
Defining relationships and limiting power: two leaders of Australian nursing, 1868,1904 This paper analyses aspects of the relationship between nursing and medicine during 1868,1904, in terms of power, gender and authority. A biographical approach is used with a focus on two leading nurses in Australia and their relationship with two leading medical practitioners. The first nurse is Lucy Osburn, the figurehead of the first generation of Nightingale nursing in Australia. The second nurse represents the second generation when Nightingale nursing had largely won acceptance and was firmly established in Australian hospitals: she is Susan McGahey. Their main medical antagonists were Dr Alfred Roberts and Dr Anderson Stuart. A struggle over the control of nursing is evident in these relationships. The outcome transcended personalities, greatly influenced the structure of modern nursing, and marked the rising tide of medical domination in Australia. [source]

In No One's Shadow: British Politics in the Age of Anne and the Writing of the History of the House of Commons

PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY, Issue 1 2009
D.W. HAYTON
The publication in 1967 of Geoffrey Holmes's masterpiece, British Politics in the Age of Anne, effectively demolished the interpretation of the ,political structure' of early 18th-century England that had been advanced by the American historian R.R. Walcott as a conscious imitation of Sir Lewis Namier. But to understand the significance of Holmes's work solely in an anti-Namierite context is misleading. For one thing, his book only completed a process of reaction against Walcott's work that was already under way in unpublished theses and scholarly articles (some by Holmes himself). Second, Holmes's approach was not simplistically anti-Namierist, as some (though not all) of Namier's followers recognized. Indeed, he was strongly sympathetic to the biographical approach, while acknowledging its limitations. The significance of Holmes's book to the study of the house of commons 1702,14 (and of the unpublished study of ,the Great Ministry' of 1710,14 to which it had originally been intended as a long introduction), was in fact much broader than the restoration of party divisions as central to political conflict. It was the re-creation of a political world, not merely the delineations of political allegiances, that made British Politics in the Age of Anne such a landmark in writing on this period. [source]