Catherine Gallagher (born 16 February 1945) is an American historicist literary critic, and Victorianist, and is Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] Gallagher is the author of Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (1994), which documented significant literary works that had previously been overlooked.[2] Gallagher is also the author of The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel (2005) and Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction (2018). She is married to Martin Jay, a faculty member of the History department at UC Berkeley.[3] She gave the 1996 Master-Mind Lecture.[4][5] She is a recipient of the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin (2011) and the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (2018). In 2020 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[6]
Selected works
edit- Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- The Body Economic : Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 2008 pbk edition
- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "Catherine Gallagher, Professor : CV". Archived from the original on 10 November 2005. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Rimer, Sara (September 30, 2003). "Universities Tighten Rules on Faculty–Student Relationships". The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
- ^ "Master-Mind Lectures". The British Academy.
- ^ Gallagher, Catherine (1997). "George Eliot: Immanent Victorian" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 94: 157–172.
- ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2020".
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