Does One Need to Be a Man to Be a Great Man?

Authors :: Nathalie Prince
Source :: Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films ISBN: 9783319770802
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Abstract: Drawing on The Prince (Machiavelli in Le Prince (Il Principe ou De Principatibus, 1532). Œuvres completes, Gallimard, Paris, 1952), this essay ponders the relationship between history and biography and underlines that the power of “great men” tends to gender history as female. Biopics, in particular, submit history to certain individuals and raise some individuals to historical status. Does the making of “great men” undermine grand history?

Subjects :: Power (social and political)
History
Great Man theory
Biography
Gender history
Religious studies
Making-of

ISBN :: 978-3-319-77080-2
ISBNs :: 9783319770802
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films ISBN: 9783319770802
Accession number :: edsair.doi...........bf9d93ea5269e77c459efc15b654494c
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77081-9_14