Books by Christopher P. Wilson

Using the works and careers of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, David Graham Phillips, and Lincoln Steffens as case studies, Christopher P. Wilson measures the advantages and costs of the new professional literary role and captures the drama of this transformative epoch in American journalism and letters.

Wilson explores how these white collar representations became part and parcel of a new social class coming to terms with its own power, authority, and contradictions by investigating the material experience and social vocabularies within white collar life itself.