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Catherine Gallagher

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Catherine Gallagher (born 16 February 1945) is a historicist literary critic and Victorianist, and is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include The Body Economic : Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel (2005). She is married to Martin Jay, an Intellectual Historian in the History department at Berkeley.[citation needed] She is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.[citation needed]

Selected works

  • The Body Economic : Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
  • Practicing New Historicism. With Stephen Greenblatt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
  • Nobody's Story. The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  • The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction. Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-67. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985
  • Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn. Bedford Cultural Edition. Ed., intros, and headnotes. Bedford Books, 1999. With Simon Stern.
  • The Making of the Modern Body. Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. and intro. with Thomas Laqueur. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

See also

References

[1]

  1. ^ Lennard J. Davis. "Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace 1670-1820 (review)." Eighteenth-Century Studies 29.4 (1996): 443-445. Project MUSE. Web. 8 Nov. 2015.