Mary Poovey

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Mary Poovey is an important literary critic whose work focuses on the Victorian Era. She is currently the Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York University,and the director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 1976. Poovey has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College, and Yale University.

Her books include:

A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1998.

Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1995.

Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1989

Proper Lady and the Woman Writer. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1984.

The Financial System in Ninetheenth-Century Britian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Florence Nightingale: Cassandra and other Selections from Suggestions For Thought. London: Pickering, 1991.