Biography 500 words 2016 deadline

Call for Papers / Appel à contibutions
GREAT BIOGRAPHERS / GRANDS BIOGRAPHES
The Great Historical Figures in Art and Literature
Les grandes figures historiques dans les lettres et les arts
(ISSN 2261-0871)
http://figures-historiques.revue.univ-lille3.fr/annoncesannouncements/

GREAT BIOGRAPHERS
Considering biography as a genre demanding to be further studied in its own right, this journal issue will gather articles on remarkable biographers, who may be called “great” in the sense that their works constitute landmarks, or at least significant advancements in the history of biography.

To steer clear of a timeworn debate, these papers will not pretend to decide whether biography belongs to literature or to history, or if it pertains to some other field of the humanities. They will simply consider biography per se, as a form of writing that has taken many different forms, but which does have a history as such, from the classic to the modern.

In one sense, the very concept of “great b