Mary Louise Poovey is an American cultural historian and literary critic whose work focuses on the Victorian Era. She is currently Samuel Rudin University ...
Mary Poovey is a scholar of 19th century British literature and culture, feminist theory, and economic history.
Mary Poovey has recently retired from her position as Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York University.
Mary Poovey
American historian and literary critic
Mary Louise Poovey is an American cultural historian and literary critic whose work focuses on the Victorian Era. She is currently Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York University, and Director of the Institute for the... Wikipedia
Born: 1950 (age 74 years)
Education: University of Virginia (1972–1976)
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen (Women in Culture and Society).
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Mary Poovey's The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. In Uneven Developments Poovey turns to broader ...
Mary Poovey is Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English. Her primary scholarly work focuses on nineteenth-century British ...
The book A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society, Mary Poovey is published by University of Chicago Press.
Jane Austen uses this powerful attraction and Emma's blindness to entice her heroine to accept her “natural” place as a woman just like any other.
Mary Poovey. The History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.