People
Faculty
Contact Information
377 Bachelor Hall
Oxford Campus
513 529 7133
wilsonac@muohio.edu
Anita Wilson
Titles
- Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D.in English, SUNY-Stony Brook, 1981
- M.A. in English, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- B.A. in Psychology, Manhattanville College
Teaching Interests
- Children’s literature
- Victorian studies
- Dickens
- Childhood, identity, and culture in literature
- Old English literature
Research Interests
- Images of childhood in Victorian literature
- The life and work of Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell
- Social history and children’s literature of Victorian England
Selected Publications
- “Elizabeth Gaskell’s Subversive Icon: Motherhood and Childhood in Ruth.” The Gaskell Society Journal. 17 (2002).
- Private Voices: The Diaries of Elizabeth Gaskell and Sophia Holland (with John V. Chapple. St. Martin’s Press, 1996).
- “The Shining Garb of Wonder: Literary Fairy Tales in Mid–Victorian England.” Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens no.37 (1993): 73-93.
- “Mother and Writer: A Study of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Diary.” The Gaskell Society Journal 7 (1993): 67-79.
- “The Benevolent Forest: The Children’s Literature of A.A. Milne” and “A Small World of Everyday Pleasures: A. A. Milne’s Poetry for Children.” Selected for reprinting in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, eds. Jennifer Baise and Thomas Ligotti. Gale Research Publications 88 (2000): 228-233 and 240-245. Originally published in Touchstones: Reflections on the Best in Children’s Literature.
- “To Instruct and to Amuse: Victorian Views of Aesop’s Fables.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 9.2 (1985).
Work in Progress
Images of childhood in Elizabeth Gaskell's work, which encompasses a variety of social classes and family structures in mid-Victorian England. Parent-child realtionships in traditional and alternative families; education; work and play; material aspects of childhood such as food, and housing.