Berkeley English Faculty

Catherine Gallagher

Emeritus
Former Ida May and William J. Eggers Jr. Chair in English

237 Wheeler Hall
by appointment
cgall@berkeley.edu

Specialties

Books

	Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Literature Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern-day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. This book locates ....(read more) FIELDS: 20th- and 21st-Century American 20th- and 21st-Century British Narrative & the Novel
	The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel 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 assumpt....(read more) FIELDS: 19th-Century British
	Practicing New Historicism, 2001 For almost thirty 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 disparat....(read more) FIELDS: 19th-Century British Critical Theory Renaissance and Early Modern
	Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the ....(read more) FIELDS: Critical Theory Narrative & the Novel 18th-Century British Gender & Sexuality Studies

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