Mary Poovey is Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities and professor of English at New York University. Her two most recent books, A History of the Modern Fact and Genres of the Credit Economy, examine the emergence of the modern disciplines. Her history of the modern financial model, co-authored with Kevin R. Brine, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.
Foreword, by Catharine R. Stimpson Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Proper Lady 2. Man's Discourse, Woman's Heart: Mary Wollstonecraft's TwoVindications 3. Love's Skirmishes and the Triumph of Ideology 4. "My Hideous Progeny": The Lady and the Monster 5. "Ideal and Almost Unnatural Perfection": Revising Mary Shelley 6. Ideological Contradictions and the Consolations of Form: The Case of Jane Austen 7. "The True English Style" Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index