Catherine Gallagher

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Catherine Gallagher (born 16 February 1945) is a new historicist literary critic and Victorianist and is currently Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is 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. Indeed, few can rival her in her knowledge of 19th-Century British cultural history.

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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.