Mary Poovey
Biographic Data
| ID | 78437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Poovey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Poovey |
| SIGNATURE | POOVEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 358 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
"Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron
On ‘the limits to financialization’
This response elaborates the role mediation plays in making ‘financialization’ visible and argues that it is crucial to analyze the institutional and mathematical infrastructure of finance in any treatment of financialization. Together, these two points form a paradox: in a period in which media representations make it seem critically important to understand the world of finance, the technical mathematics used by financial theorists and practitio…
Habit and Habituation: Governance and the Social
This article examines the issues that are at stake in the current resurgence of interest in the subject of habit. We focus on the role that habit has played in conceptions of the relations between body and society, and the respects in which such conceptions have been implicated in processes of governance. We argue that habit has typically constituted a point of leverage for regulatory practices that seek to effect some realignment of the relation…
The Search for Habit in Classical Liberalism
Using the Online Library of Liberty database, which is sponsored by the Liberty Fund, I explore the role played by the word habit in the history of classical liberalism. At the same time, I interrogate the usefulness of the Search function, the digital finding tool provided by the website. Simultaneously a survey of the changing uses of habit and a meditation on our scholarly research habits, this article investigates the intersections between id…
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1…
Financing Enlightenment, Part One
This chapter identifies five ways of understanding money that might make us rethink the Enlightenment. It then offers two very brief historical accounts: one summarizes the condition of (English) money during the Enlightenment, and the second chronicles some of the stages by which money lost its own history, as part of a more general cultural process of mystification or erasure. It suggests that some version of this erasure is intrinsic to Enligh…
The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism to science fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction, travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope pr…
Memories of Ralph Cohen, Generic and Otherwise
Memories of Ralph Cohen, Generic and Otherwise Mary Poovey (bio) I remember the first time I met Ralph Cohen. It was 1972, the first week of my first semester in graduate school. During registration, a friendly student further along in the University of Virginia program had suggested—no, insisted—that I sign up for a course with Cohen. I can't remember the name of the seminar. Something with "theory" in the title, I think, but, at the time, the c…
Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money—in other words, participating in the modern financial system—come to seem like routine activities of everyday life? Genres of the Credit Economy addresses this question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Chronicling the process by which some of our most important conceptual categories were natur…
Beneath the Horizon of Cultural Visibility: Making Money Work in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
Remember when it seemed risky to use Pay Pal for an online purchase? Remember when the initials ‘SIV’ conjured up a sexually transmitted disease or a gas-guzzling automobile instead of the structur
Mediums, Media, Mediation: Response
Mary Poovey, Response [to Oberter, Brocklebank, and Galvan], Victorian Studies, Vol. 48, No. 2, Papers and Responses from the Third Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association (Winter, 2006), pp. 249-255
For What It’s Worth
The Limits of the Universal Knowledge Project: British India and the East Indiamen
Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy in the Culture of Investment
The circulation of regular, reliable information about financial matters has always played a critical role in the modern market economy. Since at least the sixteenth century, when the first lists of prices were published in Antwerp and Venice, such writing has been instrumental in publicizing the availability of specific commodities, prices current in the market, and international exchange rates (Parsons 12). Without this information, early moder…
The Liberal Civil Subject and the Social in Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy
Public Culture - Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 2002
The Twenty-First-Century University and the Market: What Price Economic Viability
mary poovey is Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University. Her most recent book is A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Science of Wealth and Society (University of Chicago Press, 1998
The Model System of Contemporary Literary Criticism
A Response to Margaret Homans and Jill Campbell
Margaret Homans is justified in charging me with not doing anything particularly new in my interpretation of Nan Darrell. As she observes, in this interpretation I resurrect literary critical terms I used two decades ago, and, having considerably less enthusiasm for those terms now, I judge Pickering and the critical project that inspired The Proper Lady rather harshly. But even if Homans correctly assesses my impatience, as well as the repetitio…
Recovering Ellen Pickering
I initially wrote this essay for the 1999 annual conference of the British Women Writers Association. In their letter of invitation, the conference organizers had described the BWWA's goal as recovering "women's writing that has been ignored, overlooked, or excluded from the canon." I gave some thought to the entire project of canon-revision, to which the recovery of women writers has made such a valuable contribution, and then I decided to test …
The footnote: A curious history
From New Historicism to Historical Epistemology
A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
In "A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society," Mary Poovey explores the complex historical relationship between quantitative and qualitative forms of knowledge, particularly in relation to the rise of modern economics and statistics. She argues that the "modern fact" emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a hybrid of these two forms, combining the apparent objectivity of numbers wit…
Sex in America
Accommodating Merchants: Accounting, Civility, and the Natural Laws of Gender
Research Article| November 01 1996 Accommodating Merchants: Accounting, Civility, and the Natural Laws of Gender Mary Poovey Mary Poovey mary poovey is currently Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Chicago UP, 1988); Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830–1864 (Chicago UP, 1995); and Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Sp…
The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800 . Janet Todd Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833 . Susan Staves
A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
In "A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society," Mary Poovey explores the complex historical relationship between quantitative and qualitative forms of knowledge, particularly in relation to the rise of modern economics and statistics. She argues that the "modern fact" emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a hybrid of these two forms, combining the apparent objectivity of numbers wit…
Habit and Habituation: Governance and the Social
This article examines the issues that are at stake in the current resurgence of interest in the subject of habit. We focus on the role that habit has played in conceptions of the relations between body and society, and the respects in which such conceptions have been implicated in processes of governance. We argue that habit has typically constituted a point of leverage for regulatory practices that seek to effect some realignment of the relation…
Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Discourse of Statistics in the 1830s
The Model System of Contemporary Literary Criticism
On ‘the limits to financialization’
This response elaborates the role mediation plays in making ‘financialization’ visible and argues that it is crucial to analyze the institutional and mathematical infrastructure of finance in any treatment of financialization. Together, these two points form a paradox: in a period in which media representations make it seem critically important to understand the world of finance, the technical mathematics used by financial theorists and practitio…
Feminism and Deconstruction
Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy in the Culture of Investment
The circulation of regular, reliable information about financial matters has always played a critical role in the modern market economy. Since at least the sixteenth century, when the first lists of prices were published in Antwerp and Venice, such writing has been instrumental in publicizing the availability of specific commodities, prices current in the market, and international exchange rates (Parsons 12). Without this information, early moder…
The Limits of the Universal Knowledge Project: British India and the East Indiamen
The Twenty-First-Century University and the Market: What Price Economic Viability
mary poovey is Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University. Her most recent book is A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Science of Wealth and Society (University of Chicago Press, 1998
The Liberal Civil Subject and the Social in Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy
Public Culture - Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 2002
Curing the 'Social Body’in 1832: James Phillips Kay and the Irish in Manchester
Beneath the Horizon of Cultural Visibility: Making Money Work in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
Remember when it seemed risky to use Pay Pal for an online purchase? Remember when the initials ‘SIV’ conjured up a sexually transmitted disease or a gas-guzzling automobile instead of the structur
Sex in America
Accommodating Merchants: Accounting, Civility, and the Natural Laws of Gender
Research Article| November 01 1996 Accommodating Merchants: Accounting, Civility, and the Natural Laws of Gender Mary Poovey Mary Poovey mary poovey is currently Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Chicago UP, 1988); Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830–1864 (Chicago UP, 1995); and Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Sp…
Mediums, Media, Mediation: Response
Mary Poovey, Response [to Oberter, Brocklebank, and Galvan], Victorian Studies, Vol. 48, No. 2, Papers and Responses from the Third Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association (Winter, 2006), pp. 249-255
Recovering Ellen Pickering
I initially wrote this essay for the 1999 annual conference of the British Women Writers Association. In their letter of invitation, the conference organizers had described the BWWA's goal as recovering "women's writing that has been ignored, overlooked, or excluded from the canon." I gave some thought to the entire project of canon-revision, to which the recovery of women writers has made such a valuable contribution, and then I decided to test …
Anatomical Realism and Social Investigation in Early Nineteenth-Century Manchester
Research Article| November 01 1993 Anatomical Realism and Social Investigation in Early Nineteenth-Century Manchester Mary Poovey Mary Poovey Mary Poovey is Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent book is Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1988). She is currently at work on a study of the social constitution of modern knowledge, entitled Figures of Arith…
Feminism and Postmodernism-Another View
The summer of 1991 witnessed a spate of popular movies with a strikingly similar theme. Each of these movies features a more or less middle-aged white who is moderately to wildly successful in a highpressure, high-prestige occupation. Suddenly, because of the vagaries of his own body tissue, random violence, or a desire to forestall the onset of age, these men find themselves humbled, frustrated, and, as a result, miraculously humanized. In Regar…
Scenes of an Indelicate Character: The Medical "Treatment" of Victorian Women
Research Article| April 01 1986 "Scenes of an Indelicate Character": The Medical "Treatment" of Victorian Women Mary Poovey Mary Poovey Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1986) 14: 137–168. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928438 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permiss…
Journeys from this World to the Next: The Providential Promise in Clarissa and Tom Jones
Despite at least one recent attempt to discover substantive similarities the novels of Richardson and Fielding,' Dr. Johnson's initial impulse to discriminate still seems essential. There is all the difference in the asserted Johnson, between characters of nature and characters of manners, and there is the difference the characters of Fielding and those of Richardson. Characters of manners are very entertaining; but they are to be understood by a…
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen
Women and Fiction Revisited: Feminist Criticism of the English Novel
Scenes of an Indelicate Character: The Medical "Treatment" of Victorian Women
Research Article| April 01 1986 "Scenes of an Indelicate Character": The Medical "Treatment" of Victorian Women Mary Poovey Mary Poovey Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1986) 14: 137–168. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928438 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permiss…
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen
A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of. So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Mary Poovey's study of the struggle of three prominent writers to accommodate the artist's genius to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideal of the modest, self-effacing lady. Interpreting novels, letters, journal…
Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England
Covered but Not Bound: Caroline Norton and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act
Feminism and Deconstruction
Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England
Feminism and Postmodernism-Another View
The summer of 1991 witnessed a spate of popular movies with a strikingly similar theme. Each of these movies features a more or less middle-aged white who is moderately to wildly successful in a highpressure, high-prestige occupation. Suddenly, because of the vagaries of his own body tissue, random violence, or a desire to forestall the onset of age, these men find themselves humbled, frustrated, and, as a result, miraculously humanized. In Regar…
The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800 . Janet Todd Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833 . Susan Staves
Curing the 'Social Body’in 1832: James Phillips Kay and the Irish in Manchester
Anatomical Realism and Social Investigation in Early Nineteenth-Century Manchester
Research Article| November 01 1993 Anatomical Realism and Social Investigation in Early Nineteenth-Century Manchester Mary Poovey Mary Poovey Mary Poovey is Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent book is Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1988). She is currently at work on a study of the social constitution of modern knowledge, entitled Figures of Arith…
Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Discourse of Statistics in the 1830s
Accommodating Merchants: Accounting, Civility, and the Natural Laws of Gender
Research Article| November 01 1996 Accommodating Merchants: Accounting, Civility, and the Natural Laws of Gender Mary Poovey Mary Poovey mary poovey is currently Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Chicago UP, 1988); Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830–1864 (Chicago UP, 1995); and Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Sp…
A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
In "A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society," Mary Poovey explores the complex historical relationship between quantitative and qualitative forms of knowledge, particularly in relation to the rise of modern economics and statistics. She argues that the "modern fact" emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a hybrid of these two forms, combining the apparent objectivity of numbers wit…
Sex in America
From New Historicism to Historical Epistemology
A Response to Margaret Homans and Jill Campbell
Margaret Homans is justified in charging me with not doing anything particularly new in my interpretation of Nan Darrell. As she observes, in this interpretation I resurrect literary critical terms I used two decades ago, and, having considerably less enthusiasm for those terms now, I judge Pickering and the critical project that inspired The Proper Lady rather harshly. But even if Homans correctly assesses my impatience, as well as the repetitio…
Recovering Ellen Pickering
I initially wrote this essay for the 1999 annual conference of the British Women Writers Association. In their letter of invitation, the conference organizers had described the BWWA's goal as recovering "women's writing that has been ignored, overlooked, or excluded from the canon." I gave some thought to the entire project of canon-revision, to which the recovery of women writers has made such a valuable contribution, and then I decided to test …
The footnote: A curious history
The Twenty-First-Century University and the Market: What Price Economic Viability
mary poovey is Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University. Her most recent book is A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Science of Wealth and Society (University of Chicago Press, 1998
The Model System of Contemporary Literary Criticism
Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy in the Culture of Investment
The circulation of regular, reliable information about financial matters has always played a critical role in the modern market economy. Since at least the sixteenth century, when the first lists of prices were published in Antwerp and Venice, such writing has been instrumental in publicizing the availability of specific commodities, prices current in the market, and international exchange rates (Parsons 12). Without this information, early moder…
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