Laura Salisbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Salisbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Salisbury |
| SIGNATURE | SALISBURY L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Emergence of the Socioeconomic Gradient in Women's Marriage Outcomes
We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands, which widens over this period. Regional divergence in occupational structure explains half of the diverge…
On not being able to read
This article analyses ‘doomscrolling’, or the compulsive reading of anxiety-inducing online content during the COVID-19 pandemic, against the common idea that it is simply an addictive social practice that impedes mental flourishing. Instead, in order to open up its inclination towards care, I read doomscrolling through the anachronistic neologism that has come to define this specifically textual practice. Tracing the operations that doomscrollin…
Depressing time
Although in this chapter pays close attention to existential claims about the place of waiting in human experience, it suggests that waiting is significantly shaped by the promises and narratives of particular historical moments and lifeworlds, and their distinct ways of understanding time. The chapter uses a more dispersed, eclectic, and textual archive of experience to open up a theoretical account of melancholia/depression as a condition funda…
Three-generation mobility in the United States, 1850–1940
Ideology and Migration after the American Civil War
The American Civil War fractured communities in border states where families who would eventually support the Union or the Confederacy lived together prior to the conflict. We study the subsequent migration choices of Civil War veterans and their families using a unique longitudinal dataset covering enlistees from the border state of Kentucky. Nearly half of surviving Kentucky veterans moved to a new county between 1860 and 1880. We find strong e…
Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States
Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, Union Army widows were entitled to pensions; however, they lost these pensions if they remarried. Using a database compiled from widows' pension files, I estimate the effect this had on widows' remarriage decisions. I find that receiving a pension lowered the hazard rate of remarriage by 25 percent, which implies an increase in the median time to remarriage of 3.5 years. Among older women, the effect is gr…
Introduction – Beckett, Medicine and the Brain
Jackson’s Parrot
This article explores the relationship between automatic and involuntary language in the work of Samuel Beckett and late nineteenth-century neurological conceptions of language that emerged from aphasiology. Using the work of John Hughlings Jackson alongside contemporary neuroscientific research, we explore the significance of the lexical and affective symmetries between Beckett's compulsive and profoundly embodied language and aphasic speech aut…
Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State
Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They expanded these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using pension application records and county-level electoral data, we argue that political considerations guided the distribution of these pensions. We show that Confederate pension program…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Out of a handerkerchief
This is the accepted version of the following article: Salisbury, L. (2014), Out of a handkerchief. Critical Quarterly, 56 (2): 4–13., which has been published in final form at doi:10.1111/criq.12107
Selective migration, wages, and occupational mobility in nineteenth century America
Bulimic Beckett
Critics have noted a mode in Samuel Beckett's writing that can be characterised as the urge to purge. Obsessed with figuring language as both vomit and shit in the guts of an oral/anal textual system, many of his texts are constructed by an oscillation between force‐feeding and the compulsive evacuations of emetic and enema. This article suggests that B eckett's persistent textual questioning of what it means to take in and process material from …
Narration and neurology
Three days after the events of September 11, 2001, Ian McEwan began tentatively to comment on what it meant to witness, even from afar, the destruction of the World Trade Center. He focused upon th
Michel Serres
This article offers a synoptic introduction to the thought of Michel Serres and suggests how his work might be used to read science fiction. Serres’s intensely topological form of analysis explores the complex relationship between realms that are normally held to be distinct within modern thought, such as science and fiction, mathematics and mythology. The article argues that such a topological method offers sf studies a theoretical language for …
Selective migration, wages, and occupational mobility in nineteenth century America
Three-generation mobility in the United States, 1850–1940
Ideology and Migration after the American Civil War
The American Civil War fractured communities in border states where families who would eventually support the Union or the Confederacy lived together prior to the conflict. We study the subsequent migration choices of Civil War veterans and their families using a unique longitudinal dataset covering enlistees from the border state of Kentucky. Nearly half of surviving Kentucky veterans moved to a new county between 1860 and 1880. We find strong e…
Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States
Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, Union Army widows were entitled to pensions; however, they lost these pensions if they remarried. Using a database compiled from widows' pension files, I estimate the effect this had on widows' remarriage decisions. I find that receiving a pension lowered the hazard rate of remarriage by 25 percent, which implies an increase in the median time to remarriage of 3.5 years. Among older women, the effect is gr…
Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State
Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They expanded these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using pension application records and county-level electoral data, we argue that political considerations guided the distribution of these pensions. We show that Confederate pension program…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Michel Serres
This article offers a synoptic introduction to the thought of Michel Serres and suggests how his work might be used to read science fiction. Serres’s intensely topological form of analysis explores the complex relationship between realms that are normally held to be distinct within modern thought, such as science and fiction, mathematics and mythology. The article argues that such a topological method offers sf studies a theoretical language for …
Narration and neurology
Three days after the events of September 11, 2001, Ian McEwan began tentatively to comment on what it meant to witness, even from afar, the destruction of the World Trade Center. He focused upon th
Bulimic Beckett
Critics have noted a mode in Samuel Beckett's writing that can be characterised as the urge to purge. Obsessed with figuring language as both vomit and shit in the guts of an oral/anal textual system, many of his texts are constructed by an oscillation between force‐feeding and the compulsive evacuations of emetic and enema. This article suggests that B eckett's persistent textual questioning of what it means to take in and process material from …
Out of a handerkerchief
This is the accepted version of the following article: Salisbury, L. (2014), Out of a handkerchief. Critical Quarterly, 56 (2): 4–13., which has been published in final form at doi:10.1111/criq.12107
Selective migration, wages, and occupational mobility in nineteenth century America
Introduction – Beckett, Medicine and the Brain
Jackson’s Parrot
This article explores the relationship between automatic and involuntary language in the work of Samuel Beckett and late nineteenth-century neurological conceptions of language that emerged from aphasiology. Using the work of John Hughlings Jackson alongside contemporary neuroscientific research, we explore the significance of the lexical and affective symmetries between Beckett's compulsive and profoundly embodied language and aphasic speech aut…
Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State
Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They expanded these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using pension application records and county-level electoral data, we argue that political considerations guided the distribution of these pensions. We show that Confederate pension program…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States
Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, Union Army widows were entitled to pensions; however, they lost these pensions if they remarried. Using a database compiled from widows' pension files, I estimate the effect this had on widows' remarriage decisions. I find that receiving a pension lowered the hazard rate of remarriage by 25 percent, which implies an increase in the median time to remarriage of 3.5 years. Among older women, the effect is gr…
Three-generation mobility in the United States, 1850–1940
Ideology and Migration after the American Civil War
The American Civil War fractured communities in border states where families who would eventually support the Union or the Confederacy lived together prior to the conflict. We study the subsequent migration choices of Civil War veterans and their families using a unique longitudinal dataset covering enlistees from the border state of Kentucky. Nearly half of surviving Kentucky veterans moved to a new county between 1860 and 1880. We find strong e…
Depressing time
Although in this chapter pays close attention to existential claims about the place of waiting in human experience, it suggests that waiting is significantly shaped by the promises and narratives of particular historical moments and lifeworlds, and their distinct ways of understanding time. The chapter uses a more dispersed, eclectic, and textual archive of experience to open up a theoretical account of melancholia/depression as a condition funda…
On not being able to read
This article analyses ‘doomscrolling’, or the compulsive reading of anxiety-inducing online content during the COVID-19 pandemic, against the common idea that it is simply an addictive social practice that impedes mental flourishing. Instead, in order to open up its inclination towards care, I read doomscrolling through the anachronistic neologism that has come to define this specifically textual practice. Tracing the operations that doomscrollin…
The Emergence of the Socioeconomic Gradient in Women's Marriage Outcomes
We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands, which widens over this period. Regional divergence in occupational structure explains half of the diverge…
Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 works) · History (5 works)