Christopher P Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 640693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher P Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher P |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6921-2605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Freshwater reservoir effect for mollusks in the lower and central Murray River, Australia
Since the 1950s, archaeological research conducted along the middle reaches of the Murray River has relied on radiocarbon dating of freshwater mollusk shell to establish the chronology of human occupation within this region as well as support larger models of human occupation timing within Australia. Despite this, there has been no investigation into the potential freshwater reservoir effect (FRE) for the middle reaches of the Murray River. In th…
Genre theory and practice in narrative journalism: The dark picaresque in Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed (2001)
By centering on the category known as the picaresque—a label commonly applied to an episodic, satirical narrative depicting the misadventures of a rogue or vagabond—this essay investigates the cross-disciplinary concept of genre in the study of longform journalism. Differing approaches to this genre are examined, with a focus on scholarship in journalism studies and literary criticism regarding the pragmatic anticipation of readerly expectations …
Mapping multi-stakeholder initiatives for public governance and transparency: A comparative assessment of trends and motivations
Global multi-stakeholder initiatives aiming to strengthen public governance and transparency (PGMSIs) in participating countries are increasingly prominent but little researched and undertheorized. This analysis provides a preliminary mapping of the 121 countries that participate in the six most prominent initiatives (CoST, EITI, OCP, OGP, IATI). Rates of participation in single and multiple initiatives are characterized according to contextual f…
The American Peace Movement’s Use of Religious Influence and “The Pulpit” as a Public Relations Strategy in the Early 1800s
In response to calls for more public relations historical research in sectors outside business and before the 20th century, this research examines the communication efforts of American peace societies from the early to mid-1800s. It finds that peace societies demonstrated strategic intent, honored human agency, and employed full-time public relations practitioners. In addition, this research documents a nondenominational reform movement applying …
Learning how to do AI: Managing organizational boundaries in an intergovernmental learning forum
This analysis applies boundary theory to public manager efforts to overcome AI capacity gaps through a public sector collaborative learning forum. Administrative and interview data identify the types of knowledge managers are able to access, the types of organizational differences that influence learning, and the strategies public managers use to overcome them. Analysis suggests that unstructured learning fora are better suited to the transfer of…
Markets and Players: Plotting Poverty and Citizenship in Matthew Desmond's Evicted
This essay examines the narrative and representational tactics of Matthew Desmond's Evicted : Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016). Rather than read this book solely in terms of its findings, this essay argues that Desmond attempts to stylistically embody the relationship between market culture, eviction, and the political delegitimation of the poor. Evicted also reworks the sociological “community study” by refashioning literary templa…
Multi-stakeholder initiatives, policy learning and institutionalization: The surprising failure of open government in Norway
Global multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) promote policy to national governments according to a voluntary model that is often criticized for failing to produce formal policy outputs. This article proposes an analytical framework for policy learning to understand how MSIs can influence the informal institutionalization of policy in sub-national institutions, and formal policy outputs by extension. This framework is applied to Norwegian participa…
The Anti-Atlantis: Suki Kim, North Korea, and Immersion Narrative
In 2014, novelist and journalist Suki Kim released Without You, There Is No Us, a book that recounted her six-month investigative journey posing as an evangelical Christian teacher within an all-male academy just outside Pyongyang, North Korea. The book was widely praised, even rising to the New York Times’ best-seller list. But in the aftermath of its release, Kim also felt the need to respond to the way the book was marketed and received, and t…
Children's Reasoning about Poverty, Economic Mobility, and Helping Behavior: Results of a Curriculum Intervention in the Early School Years
This study evaluated the efficacy of an inquiry‐based poverty curriculum unit on students’ beliefs about causes of poverty, economic mobility, and helping behaviors. Participants were 89 kindergarten, first‐ and second‐grade students (mean age = 6.81 years, SD = .93) across two intervention and two control classrooms. Students in intervention classrooms participated in a 5‐ to 7‐week curriculum unit focused on poverty. Preintervention results sho…
Going to Ground(s): The War Correspondent’s Memoir
This essay considers two memoirs by leading American war correspondents: Stephen Crane’s memoir of the Spanish-American War, “War Memories” (1899), and Dexter Filkins’s account of the US occupation of Iraq, The Forever War (2003). But it also considers the archive of news dispatches behind both books: the news reports that come to “ground” and authorize the memoir in the first place. By “going to ground,” in addition, this essay examines both the…
The Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State
Journal Article The Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State Get access Nathaniel Cadle. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xii, 253 pp. Paper, $32.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 272–273, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav297 Published: 01 June 2015
Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square
Based on a survey of participants in Egypt's Tahrir Square protests, we demonstrate that social media in general, and Facebook in particular, provided new sources of information the regime could not easily control and were crucial in shaping how citizens made individual decisions about participating in protests, the logistics of protest, and the likelihood of success. We demonstrate that people learned about the protests primarily through interpe…
He Fell Just Short of Being News”: Gatsby 's Tabloid Shadows
Wilson's essay examines The Great Gatsby's depiction, displacement, and appropriation of the urban tabloid journalism of its day. By offering a direct look at the rhetorical forms and visual cues of the tabloids surrounding F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel—and in particular the “intermedial” strategies that were designed to mobilize readers to engage news stories and insert themselves in such tales—this essay argues that Fitzgerald's reenvisioning of …
The Conspirator
The Conspirator The Conspirator. Dir. by Robert Redford. Prod. by Robert Redford, Brian Falk, Bill Holderman, Greg Shapiro, and Robert Stone. American Film Company; released by Roadside Attractions, 2011. 123 mins. (http://www.conspiratorthemovie.com/) Christopher P. Wilson Christopher P. Wilson Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, Massachusetts [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
Calling the Tune? The Involvement of King Henry III in the Design of the Abbey Church at Westminster
Henry III's reconstruction of Westminster Abbey from 1245 was the most important undertaking of a ruler whose actions and predilections, including his copious patronage of art, are exceptionally well documented by medieval standards. But despite this uniquely promising conjunction of high importance and abundant source material, the question of how far Henry III might have exerted influence on the physical form taken by his great project has attr…
Expertise and Policy‐making: Legal Professionals in Local Government
Professional influence in policy‐making is generally believed to rest on professionals successfully laying claim to access to expertise – knowledge, understanding or experience – not available to others, above all politicians. On the basis of a 2005 survey of nearly 800 lawyers serving in local authorities in England and Wales, this article explores the relationship between specialization and political influence. Lawyers who shape policy use conv…
Undercover: White Ethnicity and Police Exposé in the 1970s
Research Article| June 01 2005 Undercover: White Ethnicity and Police Exposé in the 1970s Christopher P. Wilson Christopher P. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 349–377. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-349 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher P. Wilson; Undercover: White Ethnicity and Police Exposé in t…
Contemporary American Crime Fiction; Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction; The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir
Book Review| March 01 2004 Contemporary American Crime Fiction; Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction; The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir By Hans Bertens and Theo D'haen. New York: Palgrave. 2001. ix, 233 pp.$62.00.By Maureen T. Reddy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. viii,213 pp. Cloth, $56.00; paper, $19.00.By Megan E. Abbott. New York: Palgrave. 2002. ix, 246 pp. $59.95. …
Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America
Journal Article Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America. By Christopher P. Wilson. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xii, 281 pp. Cloth, $42.00, ISBN 0-226-90132-7. Paper, $16.00, isbn 0-226-90133-5.) Get access Claire Bond Potter Claire Bond Potter Wesleyan UniversityMiddletown, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
The Effects of Atropine and Adrenergic Antagonists on Behavioral Arousal in Rats
Two experiments investigated the mechanism for changes in measures of behavioral arousal inhibition in rats following administration of atropine. In Experiment 1, 40-day-old rats were given administrations of atropine sulfate, the alpha-, beta-adrenergic blocker labetalol, or both. The drugs, either alone or in combination, increased transport response intensity, whereas both together increased dorsal immobility durations. In Experiment 2, rats w…
This Site Under Construction
This Site Under Construction Christopher P. Wilson (bio) Forum on Hypertext Scholarship AQ as Web-Zine: Responses to AQ’s Experimental Online Issue http.//chnm.gmu.edu/aq Spending a month or so with the hypertext issue of AQ brought back memories of the penultimate movie premiere scene within Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Action Hero. Here, at the same moment Arnold’s fictional, cinematic hero chases down the pathological child-killer who (like hi…
Effects of Atropine on Measures of Behavioral Arousal in Rats
Forty-day-old rats were given varying doses (0.0, 7.5, or 15.0 mg/kg/5 ml) of atropine sulfate or atropine methylnitrate and then were tested for levels of behavioral arousal-inhibition. Behavioral measures included transport response intensity, vertical cling catalepsy duration, and dorsal immobility duration. Atropine sulfate produced large increments in transport response intensities, and atropine methylnitrate produced intermediate effects, c…
Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print
Picturing art and history
Picturing Art and History Christopher P. Wilson (bio) Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America. By David M. Lubin. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994. 364 pp. $50.00 (cloth). $30.00 (paper). Picture this: in the first section of John Berger’s collaborative Ways of Seeing (1972), in a photo essay crediting Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” the co-authors present a b…
Framing the Shooter: The Globe and the Streets
This article concerns the extensive news coverage by the leading Boston newspaper, the Boston Globe, given a double homicide of two African-American boys. These two boys were killed, ostensibly following a dispute with a juvenile street gang, in April 1991. By examining the shifting focus of this coverage over time, the article examines how the local understanding of street violence was framed by the Massachusetts debate over juvenile justice, in…
Demand Theories of the Fertility Transition: An Iconoclastic View
This paper challenges the widely held and influential view that the fertility transition is largely the consequence of changing parental demand for children brought about by changes in the economic costs and benefits entailed in childbearing. Using evidence from both historical and contemporary populations we argue that demand theories do not offer a plausible explanation of the fertility transition. Instead, we propose that ideational, rather th…
Children's Reasoning about Poverty, Economic Mobility, and Helping Behavior: Results of a Curriculum Intervention in the Early School Years
This study evaluated the efficacy of an inquiry‐based poverty curriculum unit on students’ beliefs about causes of poverty, economic mobility, and helping behaviors. Participants were 89 kindergarten, first‐ and second‐grade students (mean age = 6.81 years, SD = .93) across two intervention and two control classrooms. Students in intervention classrooms participated in a 5‐ to 7‐week curriculum unit focused on poverty. Preintervention results sho…
Stephen Crane and the Police
Stephen Crane and the Police Christopher P. Wilson (bio) Everyone who thinks is likely to know that the right of arrest is one of the most dangerous powers which organized society can give to the individual. . . . Theoretically the first result of government is to put control into the hands of honest men and nullify as far as may be the ambitions of criminals. When government places power in the hands of a criminal it of course violates this prin…
Expertise and Policy‐making: Legal Professionals in Local Government
Professional influence in policy‐making is generally believed to rest on professionals successfully laying claim to access to expertise – knowledge, understanding or experience – not available to others, above all politicians. On the basis of a 2005 survey of nearly 800 lawyers serving in local authorities in England and Wales, this article explores the relationship between specialization and political influence. Lawyers who shape policy use conv…
Effects of Haloperidol and Propranolol on Rats' Transport Response to Maternal Stimuli
Presentation of maternal stimuli to mother- or littermate-deprived 16-day-old rat pups strengthens the transport response. Administration of varying doses of haloperidol failed to attenuate this response potentiation. In contrast, administration of varying doses of propranolol blocked response potentiation. It is proposed that under high levels of stress the potentiation of transport response is primarily under the control of beta-noradrenergic s…
Multi-stakeholder initiatives, policy learning and institutionalization: The surprising failure of open government in Norway
Global multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) promote policy to national governments according to a voluntary model that is often criticized for failing to produce formal policy outputs. This article proposes an analytical framework for policy learning to understand how MSIs can influence the informal institutionalization of policy in sub-national institutions, and formal policy outputs by extension. This framework is applied to Norwegian participa…
Effects of Atropine on Measures of Behavioral Arousal in Rats
Forty-day-old rats were given varying doses (0.0, 7.5, or 15.0 mg/kg/5 ml) of atropine sulfate or atropine methylnitrate and then were tested for levels of behavioral arousal-inhibition. Behavioral measures included transport response intensity, vertical cling catalepsy duration, and dorsal immobility duration. Atropine sulfate produced large increments in transport response intensities, and atropine methylnitrate produced intermediate effects, c…
Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford
Journal Article Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford. By Martha Banta. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xiv, 431 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-22603701-0.) Get access Christopher P. Wilson Christopher P. Wilson Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 755–756, …
White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American Literature, 1885-1925
Journal Article White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American Literature, 1885–1925. By Christopher P. Wilson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. xiv + 325 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-1367-X.) Get access Daniel H. Borus Daniel H. Borus University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 292–…
Containing Multitudes: Realism, Historicism, American Studies
Things tell a story. Their parts hang together so as to work out a climax .... Retrospectively, we can see that altho no definite purpose presided over a chain of events, yet the events fell into a dramatic form, with a start, a middle, and a finish. In point of fact all stories end; and here again the point of view of a many is the more natural one to take. The world is full of partial stories that run parallel to one another, beginning and endi…
Late Nineteenth-Century American Diary Literature
Journal Article Late Nineteenth-Century American Diary Literature. By Steven E. Kagle. (Boston: Twayne, 1988. xviii + 177 pp. $19.95.) Get access Christopher P. Wilson Christopher P. Wilson Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 984–985, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901667 Published: 01 December 1988
Naturalism with a Difference
American Naturalism and the Problem of Sincerity
IN the confident years of the Progressive era, popular naturalists like David Graham Phillips, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and Frank Norris described literary endeavor as a skill based in professional dedication. They said that authorship was not a matter of inspiration, but of rigorous work habits, a watchful eye on market demand, and a sense of one's responsibility to the public. In particular, they reflected their era's stress on the importan…
The Original Design of the City of London Guildhall
Part III To Serve a New Audience: The Beginnings of Specialization in the Mass Media. The Era of the Reporter Reconsidered: The Case of Lincoln Steffens
Sister Carrie Again
VER SINCE THOSE DIFFICULT MONTHS in mid-Igoo, the account of the Sister Carrie negotiations between Theodore Dreiser and Doubleday & Page has gone through several incarnations. Most infamous, of course, was Dreiser's own tale: that Carrie had, on the brink of publication, been suppressed in deference to the prudery of Mrs. Doubleday, the firm intentionally seeing to it that none of their copies were ever sold. But this myth seemed fully debunked …
American Naturalism and the Problem of Sincerity
IN the confident years of the Progressive era, popular naturalists like David Graham Phillips, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and Frank Norris described literary endeavor as a skill based in professional dedication. They said that authorship was not a matter of inspiration, but of rigorous work habits, a watchful eye on market demand, and a sense of one's responsibility to the public. In particular, they reflected their era's stress on the importan…
The Pace of Youth: Stephen Crane's Rhetoric of Amusement
Patrons and Musicians of the English Renaissance
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Eugene O'Neill and Oriental Thought: A Divided Vision
American Literature and Social Change: William Dean Howells to Arthur Miller
Tempests and Teapots: Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing
FEW works of fiction seem to animate so confidently the religious and political spirit of the mid-nineteenth-century American cult of domesticity as Harriet Beecher Stowe's third novel, The Minister's Wooing (1859). At the core of Stowe's historical romance, set within a diminishing Puritan circle in slave-trading Newport at the close of the eighteenth century, are the trials of the pious maiden Mary Scudder, whose intuitive, feminine influence c…
James Jones
From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America
The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's steady burghers: The terrain of Herland
The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era
Journal Article The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era. By Christopher P. Wilson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. xix + 239 pp. Notes and index. $24.00.) Get access David Paul Nord David Paul Nord Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 980–981, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908953…
The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era
The Dictionary of Demography
Ralph Ingersoll: A Biography
Journal Article Ralph Ingersoll: A Biography. By Roy Hoopes. (New York: Atheneum, 1985. xx + 441 pp. $19.95.) Get access Christopher P. Wilson Christopher P. Wilson Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1086–1087, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902224 Published: 01 December 1987
Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America
American Romanticism and the Marketplace by Michael T. Gilmore
Book Review| January 01 1987 American Romanticism and the Marketplace by Michael T. Gilmore American Romanticism and the Marketplace. By Gilmore, Michael T.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. vii, 177. $19.95. Christopher Wilson Christopher Wilson Boston College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (1): 86–87. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-86-1-86 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon …
Demand Theories of the Fertility Transition: An Iconoclastic View
This paper challenges the widely held and influential view that the fertility transition is largely the consequence of changing parental demand for children brought about by changes in the economic costs and benefits entailed in childbearing. Using evidence from both historical and contemporary populations we argue that demand theories do not offer a plausible explanation of the fertility transition. Instead, we propose that ideational, rather th…
Late Nineteenth-Century American Diary Literature
Journal Article Late Nineteenth-Century American Diary Literature. By Steven E. Kagle. (Boston: Twayne, 1988. xviii + 177 pp. $19.95.) Get access Christopher P. Wilson Christopher P. Wilson Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 984–985, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901667 Published: 01 December 1988
Naturalism with a Difference
Containing Multitudes: Realism, Historicism, American Studies
Things tell a story. Their parts hang together so as to work out a climax .... Retrospectively, we can see that altho no definite purpose presided over a chain of events, yet the events fell into a dramatic form, with a start, a middle, and a finish. In point of fact all stories end; and here again the point of view of a many is the more natural one to take. The world is full of partial stories that run parallel to one another, beginning and endi…
Building Troyes Cathedral: The Late Gothic Campaigns. Stephen Murray
New York 1913: The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant
Journal Article New York 1913: The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant. By Martin Green. (New York: Scribner's, 1988. viii + 325 pp. $24.95.) Get access Christopher P. Wilson Christopher P. Wilson Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1298–1299, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936676 Published: 01 March 1990
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