Offered
Not offered in 2008
Synopsis
As for HYM4900
Objectives
Students completing this course will be expected to:
- Have a detailed knowledge of the developments and changes in autobiography and biography from the late 18th century to the present.
- Understand the connection between autobiography, biography and fiction across the period.
- Understand the impact of Freud on the writing of biography.
- Understand some of the different approaches that historians have taken to biography across this period.
- Develop the critical skills required to analyse and assess different approaches to biography.
Assessment
Historiographical essay (3000 words): 35%
Essay (4000 words): 45%
Writing exercises (2000 words): 20%
Contact hours
2 hour seminar per week
Prohibitions
HSY4810, HYM4900