Selected Publications

Books

·         Theology and the Victorian Novel.  Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2009.

·         A Reception-History of George Eliot’s Fiction.  Ann Arbor, MI.: UMI, 1990.  Rochester, NY: U of Rochester P, 1995.

Contributions to Books

·         “Transcending Realism: Northrop Frye, the Victorians, and the Anatomy of Criticism.”  In Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old.  Ed. David Rampton.  Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2009.  Reappraisals: Canadian Writers 33.  206-25.

·         “‘Learning About the Crucifixion’: The Religious Vision of For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down.”  David Adams Richards: Essays on His Works.  Ed. Tony Tremblay.  Toronto: Guernica, 2005.  119-27.

·         “Northrop Frye and Catholicism.”  Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye.  Ed. Jeffrey Donaldson and Alan Mendelson.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004.  187-202.

Articles

·         “Imagining Henry: Henry James as a Fictional Character in Colm Tóibín’s The Master and David Lodge’s Author, Author.”  jml: Journal of Modern Literature 33.2 (2010): 114-30.

·         “Northrop Frye on the Meaning of Christmas.”  The Educated Imagination: Northrop Frye Journal.  19 Dec. 2009.  Approx. 5,800 words.  Web.

·         “Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley as a Novel of Religious Controversy.”  Studies in the Novel 40.4 (2008): 389-406.

·         “The Pilgrimages of David Lodge.”  Christianity and Literature 57 (2008): 419-42.

·         “Northrop Frye and Matthew Arnold.”  University of Toronto Quarterly 74 (2005): 793-815.

·          “The Implied Theology of Vanity Fair.” Philological Quarterly 77 (1998): 79-106.

·         “Inhabiting Wuthering Heights: Jane Urquhart’s Rewriting of Emily Brontë.”  Victorian Review  21.2 (Winter, 1995): 115-28.

·         “Locking George Sand in the Attic: Female Passion and Domestic Realism in the Victorian Novel.”  University of Toronto Quarterly 63 (1994): 408-28.

·         “Literary Studies and Society: Some Reflections on the Political Correctness Debate.”  Queen’s Quarterly 99 (1992): 314-27.

·         “Narrative Voice and the ‘Feminine’ Novelist: Dinah Mulock and George Eliot.”  Victorian Review 18.1 (1992): 24-42.

·         “Thackeray and Orientalism: Cornhill to Cairo and The Newcomes.” English Studies in Canada 16 (1990): 297-313.

·         “Religion, Language, and Society: Swift’s Anglican Writings.”  English Studies in Canada 15 (1989): 21-34.