A Science of the Specific

You research finance with the tools of historical epistemology, a field that has received much attention since the "great recession" after the crash of 2008.However, already several years before the latest crisis you were interested in the epistemology of economics and in finance's characteristic ways of abstraction.As the biography of a scholar is often made of a succession of research problems, can we start biographically?Mary poovey: All my degrees are in english literature and i did my doctoral degree with a dissertation on gothic novels at the end of the eighteenth century.then i got my first job at Yale university, and it turned out they did not want me to teach on the eighteenth or the nineteenth century, so i ended up teaching narrative theory.After a few years, i moved on to swarthmore college where they didn't want me to teach eighteenth-century literature either, so i ended up teaching literary theory for quite a long time.And then i went to two or three other places, but i never quite made my way back to what i had actually been trained in.i eventually wrote a couple of books, one called The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, which is on the late eighteenthcentury, early nineteenth-century english literature, which was the actual focus of my training, and then i wrote Uneven Developments, which was on the nineteenth century, but this time, i focused not just on literature, but also on medicine, health reform law and governesses, and about Florence nightingale and the position of women in society. 1 this one was really focused on gender relations.that is what i consider the first part of my career.caroline Arni: What route did you take from there, by the nineties?Mp: i wrote a series of works that had to do with cultural questions as opposed to

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