selected publications
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academic article
- Thoreau's Evolving Dream Toad Paradise, 1850-1860. The Concord Saunterer. 23:50-73. 2015
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing as a New England Song of Songs. Allegorica. 28:110-125. 2012
- The City in Which I Love You: Li-Young Lee's Excellent Song.. Christianity and Literature. 46:37-60. 1996
- Thousand Pieces of Gold: Competing Fictions in the Representation of Chinese-American Experience. Western American Literature. XXXI:49-62. 1996
- Overt Appropriation. College English. 54:406-417. 1992
- The Creative Fall of Bradstreet and Dickinson. Essays in Literature. XIV:81-91. 1987
- Nineteenth-Century Express. Idaho English Journal. 1986
- Coming Down the Pages of Nature and Thoreau. Essays in Literature. 85-95. 1985
- 'Do You Know the Author?': The Question of Authorship in Wieland. Early American Literature. XXVII:239-248. 1982
- 'In Snow Thou Comest': Emily Dickinson's Faithful Riddle. Dickinson Studies. 46:15-19. 1981
- The Efficacy of the Word, the Futility of Words: Whitman's 'Reconciliation' and Melville's 'Magnanimity Baffled'. Walt Whitman Review. 27:150-155. 1981
- Fishing for the Words of Life: Norman Macleanâs 'A River Runs Through It'. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 34-45. 1980
- Getting the Blues on Big Blue. The Boston Herald Magazine. 1979
- Too Happy Husbandmen: Addresses Given to Middlesex Farmers from the 1820's to 1860. The Concord Saunterer. 14:7-18. 1979
- 'Incessant Tragedies': A Reading of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. English Literary History. 44:515-525. 1977
- Literary Contexts of 'Life in the Iron-Mills'. American Literature. XLIX:70-85. 1977
- Alcottâs Criticism of A Week. Resources for American Literary Study. VI:81-84. 1976
- The 1860 Concord Cattle-Show: An Official Account. Thoreau Society Bulletin. 132:6-7. 1975
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chapter
- The Detective as Prophet: Arnaldur Indridason's Inspector Erlendur. Christianity and Detective Fiction. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2014
- 'Do You Know the Author?': The Question of Authorship in Wieland. Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Ed. Waterman, Bryan. New York: W. W. Norton. 370-379. 2011