“Neo-Realism: Two Women.” Commitment (Stanford) 1.1. (1966): 4.

“The Quest for Authentic Faculty Power.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 52.2 (1969): 196–217.

Response to “Towards a New Humanism,” by Ronald Lee. Chapter in A Teacher’s Faith and Values. Northfeld, Minn.: St. Olaf College (1973). pp. 134–41.

“Beyond the Romantic Dilemma: A Study of the Poetry of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman.” Dissertation Abstracts 34 (1974): (Stanford).

“Without Purse or Scrip: A Nineteen Year Old Missionary in 1853.” (edition of journal with commentary) New Era 5.6 (July 1975): 20–29.

“Tuckerman’s Sonnet I:10: The First Post-Symbolist Poem.” The Southern Review N S 11.2 (Spring 1976): 323–47.

“Benjamin the Great King.” Ensign 6.12 (December 1976): 26–31.

“Moroni and His Captains: Men of Peace in a Time of War,” Ensign 7.8 (August 1977): 28–36.

“Young Brigham.” New Era 7.9 (September 1977): 15–26.

“Brigham Young as a Missionary.” New Era 7.11 (November 1977): 30–38.

“Brigham and Joseph.” New Era 7.12 (December 1977): 42–50.

“George Laub’s Nauvoo Journal.” (annotated edition) BYU Studies 18.2 (Winter 1978): 151–78.

“Brigham’s Gospel Kingdom.” (biography; longer version of chapter from book) BYU Studies 18.3 (Spring 1978): 328–76.

“The Dawning of a Brighter Day: Mormon Literature after 150 Years.” BYU Studies 22.2 (Spring 1982): 131–60.

“Cordelia and Paulina, Shakespeare’s Healing Dramatists,” Literature and Belief 2 (1982): 69–82.

“The Forms of Loss in Tuckerman’s Elegy.” Encyclia 59 (1982): 35–44.

“Across the Arabian Desert to a Bountiful Land: Could Joseph Smith Have Known the Way?” Chapter in Book of Mormon Authorship. ed. Noel Reynolds, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft             (1982), pp. 143–56.

“We Need to Liberate Mormon Men: The Evidence of Mormon Literature.” Exponent II 9.3 (Spring 1983): 4–5.

“Hawthorne and the Virtue of Sin.” Literature and Belief, 3 (1983): 109–22.

“The Dawning of a Brighter Day: Mormon Literature After 150 Years.” Chapter in After 150 Years: The Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective. eds. Thomas G. Alexander and Jessie L. Embry. Midvale, Utah: Signature Books (1983). pp. 95–146.

“Benjamin the Great King.” Chapter in The Book of Mormon: It All Begins with a Family. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book (1983), pp. 53–65.

“Moroni and His Captains.” Chapter in The Book of Mormon: It All Begins with a Family. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book (1983), pp. 143–58.

“Brigham Young’s University and the Music of Hope.” BYU Today, 37.5 (October 1983): 17–19.

“Tuckerman and Tennyson: ‘Two Friends . . . On Either Side the Atlantic.’” The New England Quarterly 57.2 (June 1984): 225–39.

“Are Women More Free Under the Patriarchy?: The Evidence of Mormon Literature.” Mormon Letters Annual 1983. Provo, Utah: The Association for Mormon Letters (1984): 131–50.

“The Trouble with Excellence—or How to Value the ‘Less Honorable’ Gifts.” Chapter in Excellence. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book (1984), pp. 55–67.

“Becoming Brigham Young’s University.” Chapter in On the Lord’s Errand: The Purposes and Possibilities of Brigham Young University. Selected Essays. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University. 1985. pp. 25–36.

“On Finding God and Truth: From Hope to Knowledge to Skepticism to Faith.” Chapter in A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on Belief by Mormon Scholars. ed. Philip L. Barlow. Centerville, Utah: Canon Press, 1986. pp. 67–84.

“Modern Acts of the Apostles, 1840: Mormon Literature in the Making.” BYU Studies 27.4 (Fall 1987): 79–95.

“Hamlet against Revenge.” Literature and Belief 7 (1987): 49–62.

“Mormon Literature: The State of the Art.” Student Review (June 1987): 14, 23.

“The Achievement of Lowell Bennion.” Sunstone 12.4 (July 1988): 24–30.

“Marion D. Hanks: The Quality of Mercy.” Chapter in Teachers Who Touch Lives: Methods of the Masters. ed. Philip L. Barlow. Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers, 1988. pp. 52–66.

“Call Me Duff.” (profile of Marion D. Hanks) This People 10.4 (Holiday 1989): 12–16.

“Becoming Bone of Bone and Flesh of Flesh.” Chapter in As Women of Faith: Talks Selected from the BYU Women’s Conferences. ed. Mary E. Stovall and Carol Cornwall Madsen. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 1989. pp. 107–21.

“Are All Alike unto God?: Prejudice against Blacks and Women in Popular Mormon Thought.” Sunstone 15.2 (Mar./ Apr. 1990): 21–31.

“A New Era for Mormon Women and Men.” Chapter in Women of Wisdom and Knowledge: Talks Selected from the BYU Women’s Conference, 1989, ed. Marie Cornwall and Susan Howe. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book 1990, pp. 136–43.

“Orson Scott Card: How a Great Science Fictionist Uses the Book of Mormon.” Chapter in Review of Books on the Book of Mormon, vol. 2, ed. Daniel C. Peterson. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, pp. 56–62. (This volume also issued as a periodical as FARMS Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 2.1 (1990): 56–62.)

“A Second Witness for the Logos: The Book of Mormon and Contemporary Literary Criticism.” Chapter in By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh Nibley, eds. John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks. Salt Lake City, Utah: F.A.R.M.S. and Deseret Book, 1990, pp. 91–125.

“Lovers as Mortal Enemies.” Chapter in Willa Cather: Family, Community, and History, ed. John J. Murphy. Provo, Utah: BYU Humanities Publications Center, 1990, pp. 125–31.

“Shakespeare as a Healer.” Literature and Belief 11 (1991): 27–39.

“Laurel Ulrich’s Pulitzer.” This People, Summer 1991, 18–23.

“Introduction: The Spirit of Mercy at Christmas.” Chapter in Christmas for the World, A Gift to the Children, eds. Curtis Taylor and Stan Zenk. Salt Lake City: Aspen Books, 1991.

“The Spirit of Mercy at Christmas.” Chapter in The Magic of Christmas. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992.

“Speaker for the Dead and the Different: Orson Scott Card as Mormon Writer.” This People 14.2 (Summer 1993): 41–50

“Crossing Boundaries: The Recent Long Poems of Leslie Norris.” Literature and Belief 13 (1993).

“Crossing Borders: Norris’s Recent Long Poems.” Chapter in An Open World: Essays on Leslie Norris, eds. Eugene England and Peter Makuck. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1993, pp. 100–12.

“Douglas Thayer’s Mr. Wahlquist in Yellowstone: A Mormon’s Christian Response to Wilderness. BYU Studies 34.1 (1994): 52–73.

“Orson Scott Card as a Mormon Writer.” Chapter in Review of Books on the Book of Mormon, ed. Daniel Peterson. Provo, UT: F.A.R.M.S., 1994, pp. 59–79.

“Mormons Playing in the Dark.” Chapter in Association for Mormon Letters Annual, 1994. Salt Lake City, UT: AML, 1995.

“A Case for Mormon Christian Pacifism.” Chapter in Moral Perspectives on U. S. Security Policy: Views from the LDS Community, edited by Valerie M. Hudson and Kerry M. Kartchner. Provo, UT: David M. Kennedy Center, 1995, pp. 96–103.

“Mormon Literature: Progress and Prospects.” In Mormon Americana: A Guide to Sources and Collections in the United States, ed. David Whittaker. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 1995, pp. 455–505.

“Utah: A Centennial Celebration of a Spiritual Journey.” This People 17.1 (Spring 1996): 1–10.

“The Legacy of Lowell L. Bennion.” Sunstone 19.3 (Sept. 1996): 27–44.

“Introduction: One View of the Garden.” In Tending the Garden: Essays on Mormon Literature, eds. Eugene England and Lavina Fielding Anderson. Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1996.

“The Place of David O. McKay in Mormon Culture.” Introduction for What E’er Thou Art Act Well Thy Part: The Missionary Diaries of David O. McKay, eds. Stan Larson and Patricia Larson. Salt Lake City, Blue Ribbon Books, 1999. Also published in Sunstone 117 (February 2000): 19–27.

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