Catherine Gallagher: 3 books
Telling It Like It Wasn’t
The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
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. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy...
The Body Economic
Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
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...
by Catherine Clinton, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Karen L. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hill. The headlines keep coming, and the debate rolls on. How should we contend with our troubled history as a nation? What is the best way forward?
This...