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3 unusual facts about Catherine Gallagher


Catherine Gallagher

She is married to Martin Jay, an Intellectual Historian in the History department at Berkeley.

Stephen Greenblatt

Much of his work has been "part of a collective project", such as his work as co-editor of the Berkeley-based literary-cultural journal Representations (which he co-founded in 1983), as editor of publications such as the Norton Anthology of English Literature and as co-author of books such as Practicing New Historicism (2000), which he wrote with Catherine Gallagher.

Greenblatt's works on new historicism and “cultural poetics” include Practicing New Historicism (2000) (with Catherine Gallagher), in which Greenblatt discusses how “the anecdote… appears as the ‘touch of the real’” andTowards a Poetics of Culture (1987), in which Greenblatt asserts that the question of “how art and society are interrelated,” as posed by Jean-François Lyotard and Fredric Jameson, “cannot be answered by appealing to a single theoretical stance”.



see also

Delarivier Manley

Janet Todd, Catherine Gallagher and Ros Ballaster provided the perspective of Manley as a proto-feminist.