Alison Booth

About

Alison Booth holds the Brown-Forman Chair in English and is a Professor in the Department of Political & Social Thought at the University of Virginia. Her role involves engaging with the fields of political and social thought, contributing to the academic community through teaching and research. The information provided does not specify her research focus, background, or key contributions beyond her academic titles and departmental affiliation.

Research topics

• Information Retrieval
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Developmental psychology
• Literature
• Social psychology
• Philosophy
• Mathematics
• Art
• World Wide Web

Selected publications

• Lives of the dead poets: Keats, Shelley, Coleridge

  Nineteenth Century Contexts · 2020 · 7 citations

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  "Lives of the dead poets: Keats, Shelley, Coleridge." Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 42(4), pp. 475–476

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• Introduction—The Materials at Hand

  PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America · 2020 · 6 citations

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• Trade Unions and the Welfare of Rural-Urban Migrant Workers in China

  Industrial and Labor Relations Review · 2021-04-21 · 3 citations

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  Using a panel survey, the authors investigate how the welfare of rural-urban migrant workers in China is affected by trade union presence at the workplace. Controlling for individual fixed effects, they find the following. Relative to workers from workplaces without union presence or with inactive unions, both union-covered non-members and union members in workplaces with active unions earn higher monthly income, are more likely to have a written contract, be covered by social insurances, receiv…

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• Particular Webs: <i>Middlemarch,</i> Typologies, and Digital Studies of Women's Lives

  Victorian Literature and Culture · 2018-12-07 · 2 citations

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  [H]e was enamoured of that arduous invention which is the very eye of research, provisionally framing its object and correcting it to more and more exactness of relation … to pierce the obscurity of those minute processes. —George Eliot, Middlemarch It would be hard to discover a theoretical or aesthetic approach to George Eliot's Middlemarch that is not already anticipated in some way by the novel's sagacious narrator. Possibly that persona, the quintessential Victorian polymath, does not fores…

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• Mary Carpenter, Frances Power Cobbe, “Noble Workers,” and Evangelical Discourse in Action

  Victorian Literature and Culture · 2023-01-01 · 1 citations

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  Victorian activists Mary Carpenter (1807–1877) and Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) held different standing in their day: the international founder of reform schools, considered a devout “noble worker,” mentored the Theist journalist who is better known today for feminism and animal-rights organizing. The essay draws on contemporary and recent studies of both figures and the short versions collected in books in Collective Biographies of Women, a database with an XML schema annotating the narrativ…

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Frequent coauthors

• Mark L. Bryan

  85 shared

• Trev Lynn Broughton

  81 shared

• Joseph Bristow

  81 shared

• Elisha Cohn

  Cornell University

  81 shared

• Kirstie Blair

  University of Strathclyde

  81 shared

• Mary Carpenter

  81 shared

• Jesse Cordes

  University of Strathclyde

  81 shared

• Tina Young Choi

  81 shared

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