Christopher Wilson

Professor Emeritus

Department

English

Publications

Books

  • Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010.
  • Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Ìý
  • White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American Literature, 1885-1925. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
  • The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.

Electronic Texts

  • Ìý(2024).

Articles in Scholarly Journals

  • "Architects, Exiles, and Megalomaniacs: Lawrence Wechsler and the Post-Totalitarian Turn." Journal of Transnational American Studies 17, no. 1 (2026): 41-66.
  • "My Aftermath:Ìý John Hersey, My Father, and the Rewriting of Hiroshima."Ìý War, Literature and the Arts v. 37 (2026), at .Ìý
  • ÌýLiterary Journalism Studies 15/16(2/1), December 2024/June 2025: 83-114.
  • "Genre theory and practice in narrative journalism: The dark picaresque in Barbara Ehrenreich Nickel and Dimed (2001)," Journalism 2026, Vol. 27(5) 1270“1286,Ìý
  • , American Studies vol. 63, no 1 (Spring 2024):81-108.
  • "," Ìý,ÌýÌý,ÌýÌý, February 2022Ìý, pp. 167 - 190
  • ","ÌýCadernos De Literatura Comparada, (44), 73“90.
  • "Domesticating the Afterwar: David Finkel'sÌýThank You For Your ServiceÌý(2013)."ÌýCollege Literature, vol. 48 no. 1, 2021, p.29-58.ÌýProject MUSE,Ìý
  • ","ÌýLiterary Journalism Studies,Ìývol. 10 no. 1 (Spring 2018): 113-138.
  • œThe Chronicler:Ìý George PackerÌýThe Unwinding,� atÌý.
  • œOrphans of Our Reading:Ìý The Narrative Journalism of Foster Care,�ÌýCollege LiteratureÌý44 (Winter 2017): 58-87.
  • "A Rumor of Noir: ÌýCalvin Trillin About Town(s)," in Journalism: ÌýTheory, Practice, & Criticism, 1 (2016): 1-16.
  • "When Noir Meets Nonfiction," Twentieth-Century Literature 61:4 (December 2015): 484-510.
  • œGoing to Ground(s): ÌýThe War Correspondent Memoir,� Journal of Transnational American Studies6:1 (2015): 1-23.
  • œMichael Lewis and the Business of Sport,� Raritan 43 (Fall 2014): 112-129.
  • œFinding Emma Larkin,� Literary Journalism Studies 6 (Fall 2014): 49-72.
  • "'Ridiculous Impingements of Normalcy': Home Fronts, Good Soldiers, and War Correspondents," War, Literature and the Arts 24 (Spring 2012): 1-25.
  • œ™He fell just short of being news:™ ÌýGatsby Tabloid Shadows,� American Literature, Volume 84, Number 1, March 2012: Ìý119-149.
  • œThe Underwater Narrative: ÌýJoan Didion Miami,� Literary Journalism Studies 3 (Fall 2011): 9-29.
  • "Lost Boys and Recovered Classics: Literary and Social Memory in Lorenzo Carcaterra's Sleepers (1995)," Journal of American Studies 42 (2008): 107-31.
  • œWhere Whitey?� Ethnic Criminality and the Problem of the Informant,� Crime, Law, and Social Change (March 2005): Ìý175-198.
  • œUndercover: White Ethnicity and Police Exposé in the 1970s.� American Literature 77 (June 2005): 349-77.
  • œ™Let Work out the Details:™ Putting Interrogation in Prime Time.� Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 12 (Spring 2005): 47-64.
  • œThe Time of the Crime: Cold Case Squads and American Social Memory.� Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 28 (2004): 497-518.
  • "Framing the Shooter: The Globe and the Streets,� Cultural Studies 11 (1997): 390-417.
  • "True and True(r) Crime: Cop Shops and Crime Scenes in the 1980s.� American Literary History 9 (Winter 1997): 718-43.
  • "Stephen Crane and the Police." American Quarterly 48 (June 1996): 273-315.
  • "Unleavened Bread: The Representation of Robert Grant." American Literary Realism 22 (Spring 1990): 17-35.
  • "Containing Multitudes: Realism, Historicism, American Studies." American Quarterly 41 (Sept. 1989): 466-495.
  • "Broadway Nights: John Reed and the City." Prospects 13 (1988): 273-94.
  • "Markets and Fictions: Howells' Infernal Juggle." American Literary Realism 20 (Spring 1988): 2-22.
  • "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Steady Burghers: The Terrain of Herland." Women's Studies 12 (1986), 271-92. Republished in Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Woman and Her Work. Ed. Sheryl Meyering (U. Rochester 1989).
  • "Tempests and Teapots: Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing" New England Quarterly, 58 (Dec. 1985), 554-577.
  • "Sinclair Lewis and the Passing of Capitalism." american studies, 24 (Fall 1983): 95-108
  • "'The Pace of Youth': Stephen Crane's Rhetoric of Amusement." ÌýJournal of American Culture 6 (Summer 1983): 31-38.
  • "American Naturalism and the Problem of Sincerity," American Literature 54 (Dec. 1982): 511-527.
  • "The Era of the Reporter Reconsidered: The Case of Lincoln Steffens." Journal of Popular Culture 15 (Fall 1981): 41-49.

Articles in Public Journals

  • "The Making of a Best Seller, 1906" [Essay about Upton Sinclair], New York Times Book Review, Dec. 22, 1985, pp. 1, 25, 27.

Articles in Collections

  • "The Sorry Places:Ìý Cristina Rathbone's A World Apart." In . Edited by David Swick and Richard Lance Keeble (Routledge 2024): 79-92.
  • "Immersion Journalism and the Second Order Narrative."ÌýÌýThe Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism,Ìýeds. William E. Dow and Robert S. Maguire (New York and London:Ìý Routledge, 2020), 345-359.
  • œRough Justice: Crime, Corruption, and Urban Governance,� in Christine Bold, ed. U.S. Popular Print Culture, 1860-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • œRisk Management: Frank Abagnale, Jr. and the Shadowing of Pleasure,� in Bran Nicol, Patricia Pulham, Eugene McNulty, eds. Crime Culture: Figuring Criminality in Literature and Film. London & New York: Continuum, 2011.
  • œ'The Secrets of the Master Deedbox': Class and American Fiction.� The Blackwell Companion to American Fiction. Ed. Robert Lamb and G.R. Thompson. Marlboro, MA.: Blackwell, 2005). 340-55.
  • "The Mulatto in the Iron Mask: Mark Twain and Alexandre Dumas." Reading Without Maps: Cultural Landmarks in a Post-Canonical Age. Ed. Christophe Den Tandt. Brussels: ÌýPEI, 2005. 319-336.
  • "'Out There': Transnationalism and the Other America." Through the Looking Glass: American Studies in Transcultural Perspective. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999). 244-257.
  • "Labor and Capital in Jennie Gerhardt." Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt: New Essays on the Restored Text. Ed. James L. W. West III. Philadelphia: U. Penn Press, 1995. 103-114.
  • "Plotting the Border: Pancho Villa, John Reed, and Insurgent Mexico," in Cultures of U.S. Imperialism. Ed. Donald Pease and Amy Kaplan. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
  • "'Unlimn'd They Disappear': Recollecting Yonnondio: ÌýFrom the Thirties." Ed. Richard W. Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears. The Power of Culture Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1993. 39-63.
  • "The Rhetoric of Consumption: Mass Market Magazines and the Demise of the Gentle Reader." The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980. New York: ÌýPantheon, 1983). 39-64. also reprinted in Japanese edition by Keiso Shobo 1986).
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