Mary 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 History of the Production of Knowledge. Her PhD was from the University of Virginia (1976). Poovey has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College, and Yale University.
Works
Her books include:
- A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1998.
- Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1995.
- Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1989
- Proper Lady and the Woman Writer. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1984.
- The Financial System in Ninetheenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Florence Nightingale: Cassandra and other Selections from Suggestions For Thought. London: Pickering, 1991.
