Catherine Gallagher (born 16 February 1945) is an American historicist, literary critic, and Victorianist, and is Professor Emerita of English at the

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. 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. 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 Martin Evan Jay (born May 4, 1944) is an American intellectual historian whose research interests connected history with the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, social theory, cultural criticism, and historiography. He is currently the Sid ...

, a faculty member of the History department at UC Berkeley. She gave the 1996 Master-Mind Lecture. She is a recipient of the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the

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(2011) and the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (2018). In 2020 she was elected to the

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Selected works

''Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction.''
Chicago:

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, 2018. *''The Body Economic : Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel.'' Princeton:

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, 2005
2008 pbk edition''Practicing New Historicism.''
With

Stephen Greenblatt Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general edit ...

. Chicago:

, 2000.
''Nobody's Story. The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820.''
Berkeley:

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, 1994. *''The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction. Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-67.'' Chicago:

, 1985 *''Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn. Bedford Cultural Edition.'' Ed., intros, and headnotes.

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, 1999. With Simon Stern.
''The Making of the Modern Body. Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century.''
Ed. and intro. with Thomas Laqueur. Berkeley:

, 1987.

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