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Gallagher, M. Catherine was born on February 16, 1945 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Daughter of John Martin and Mary Catherine (Hulton) Sullivan.
(Body Economic Life. Princeton University Press, 2008.)
Body Economic Life. Princeton University Press, 2008.
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( For almost twenty years, new historicism has been a hig...)
For almost twenty years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In Practicing the New Historicism, two of its most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and far-reaching effects. In lucid and jargon-free prose, Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt focus on five central aspects of new historicism: recurrent use of anecdotes, preoccupation with the nature of representations, fascination with the history of the body, sharp focus on neglected details, and skeptical analysis of ideology. Arguing that new historicism has always been more a passionately engaged practice of questioning and analysis than an abstract theory, Gallagher and Greenblatt demonstrate this practice in a series of characteristically dazzling readings of works ranging from paintings by Joos van Gent and Paolo Uccello to Hamlet and Great Expectations. By juxtaposing analyses of Renaissance and nineteenth-century topics, the authors uncover a number of unexpected contrasts and connections between the two periods. Are aspects of the dispute over the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist detectable in British political economists' hostility to the potato? How does Pip's isolation in Great Expectations shed light on Hamlet's doubt? Offering not only an insider's view of new historicism, but also a lively dialogue between a Renaissance scholar and a Victorianist, Practicing the New Historicism is an illuminating and unpredictable performance by two of America's most respected literary scholars.
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(Three religious-political debates on the Industrial Refor...)
Three religious-political debates on the Industrial Reformation, and how those debates bleed into formal difficulties for the "problem novels" of the time: free-will vs. determinism (on plot, character); family vs. society (on how the relationship between family and society is metaphor or metonymy); facts vs. values (on representation, political and literary).
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( The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of ...)
The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic "life," making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.
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Gallagher, M. Catherine was born on February 16, 1945 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Daughter of John Martin and Mary Catherine (Hulton) Sullivan.
Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1972; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1974; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1979.
Assistant professor, U. Denver, 1979-1980; assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1980-1984; associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1984-1990; professor, University of California, Berkeley, since 1990.
( The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of ...)
(Three religious-political debates on the Industrial Refor...)
( For almost twenty years, new historicism has been a hig...)
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(Body Economic Life. Princeton University Press, 2008.)
Member Modern Language Association (delegate assembly member 1985-1986, executive committee literature criticism division 1991-1994), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Academy Literature Studies, British Studies Association, The Dickens Society.
Married Martin Evan Jay, July 6, 1974. Children: Margaret Shena, Rebecca Erin Jay.