Catherine Gallagher is an American historicist literary critic, and Victorianist, and is Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Gallagher is the author of Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (1994), which documented significant literary works that had previously been overlooked. Gallagher is also the author of The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel (2005) and Telling...