Articles in Periodicals
Articles in Periodicals
"In consideration of the evolution of explorers and travellers into authors; a model." Studies in Travel Writing 15.3 (Sept. 2011): 221-41.
“'Caledonian Suttee’? An Anatomy of Carrier Cremation Cruelty in the Historical Record.” BC Studies 149 (Spring 2006): 3-37.
“'Zealous Sayles’ and Zealous Sales: Bookings on the Northwest Passage.” Princeton University Library Chronicle 64 (Winter 2003): 252-87.
“One Hundred Days in Edmonton.” Religious Studies and Theology, vol. 21, no. 1 (2002): 51-73.
“Splendor sine occasu: Salvaging Boat Encampment.” Canadian Literature, nos. 170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 162-87.
"Cultured Wilderness in Jasper National Park." Journal of Canadian Studies 34.3 (Fall 1999): 7-58.
"Paul Kane goes South: The Sale of the Family's Collection of Field Sketches." Journal of Canadian Studies 32.2 (Summer 1997): 22-47.
"Tracing one Discontinuous Line through the Poetry of the Northwest Passage." Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews no. 39 (Fall/Winter 1996): 7-48.
"Do the Aspen Still Tremble? Cultural Memory and Place." Museums Review 21.3 (Fall 1995): 36-40.
"Explorers' and Travellers' Narratives: A Peregrination through Different Editions." Facsimile. Newsletter of the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions 12 (Nov. 1994): 8-16.
"From Exploration to Publication: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Arctic Narrative." Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America 47:1 (1994): 43-53.
"Notes on Samuel Hearne's Journey from a Bibliographical Perspective." Papers/Cahiers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 31.2 (Fall 1993): 21-45.
"Samuel Hearne and the Printed Word." Polar Record 29(169) (1993): 166-67.
"The Poetry of The `New Georgia Gazette' or `Winter Chronicle' 1819-1820." Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews no. 30 (Spring/Summer 1992): 41-73.
"Writing the Experience." Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education (journal of the Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario) 4:5 (August 1992): 10-11.
"Buffalo in Word and Image: From European Origins to the Art of Clarence Tillenius." Alberta: Studies in the Arts and Sciences 3:1 (1992): 79-129. (Simultaneously pub. in book form; see below.)
"Exploration/Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Author." International Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue internationale d'études canadiennes no. 5 (Spring/Printemps 1992): 39-68.
"Writing the Wilderness Experience: Field Notes, Journals, Books." Nastawgan 19.1 (Spring 1992): 10-13.
"Samuel Hearne's Accounts of the Massacre at Bloody Fall, 17 July 1771." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 22.1 (Jan. 1991): 25-51.
"Washington Irving's Problems with History and Romance in Astoria." The Canadian Review of American Studies 21.1 (Summer 1990): 1-13.
"Wanderings in Search of Paul Kane's Wanderings of an Artist." Prairie Fire 10.3 (Sept. 1989): 28-41.
"'I came to rite thare portraits': Paul Kane's Journal of his Western Travels, 1846-1848." The American Art Journal 21.2 (Spring 1989): 6-88 (entire issue).
"The Pastoral and the Wilderness in Early Canada." Landscape Research 14.1 (Spring 1989): 15-19.
"Creating Travel Literature: The Case of Paul Kane." Papers/Cahiers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 27 (1988): 80-95.
"Notes Toward a Reconsideration of Paul Kane's Art and Prose." Canadian Literature nos. ll3-l4 (l987): 179-205.
"Touring at High Speed: Fur-Trade Landscapes in the Writings of Frances and George Simpson." Musk-Ox 34 (1986): 78-87.
"Aesthetic Mappings of the West by the Palliser and Hind Survey Expeditions, 1857-1859." Studies in Canadian Literature 10 (1985): 24-52. Substantive errata (by editor) in next issue, 11 (1986).
"The Aesthetic Map of the North, 1845-1859." Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America 38 (1985): 89-103.
"The Aesthetic Mapping of Nature in the Second Franklin Expedition." Journal of Canadian Studies 20.1 (Spring 1985): 39-57.
"The Limits of the Picturesque in British North America." Journal of Garden History 5.1 (Jan.-Mar. 1985): 97-111.
"Bishop Anderson's Landscape Tour by Canoe across Northern Ontario in 1852." Northward Journal: A Quarterly of Northern Arts no. 31 (Spring 1985): 4-22.
"Samuel Hearne and the Landscapes of Discovery." Canadian Literature no. 103 (Winter 1984): 27-40.
"The Grandest Tour: the Aesthetics of Landscape in Sir George Back's Explorations of the Eastern Arctic 1833-1837." English Studies in Canada 10 (1984): 436-56.
"Arctic Exploration and Milton's `frozen Continent.'" Notes and Queries new ser. 31 (1984): 325-26.
"David Thompson's Imaginative Mapping of the Canadian Northwest 1784-1812." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 15.2 (Apr. 1984): 89-106.
"Retaining Captaincy of the Soul: Response to Nature in the First Franklin Expedition." Essays on Canadian Writing no. 28 (Spring 1984): 57-92.
"`...where nothing moves and nothing changes': The Second Arctic Expedition of John Ross (1829-1833)." Dalhousie Review 62 (1982): 485-94.
"Alexander Mackenzie and the Landscapes of Commerce." Studies in Canadian Literature 7 (1982): 141-50.
"Milton's Nativity Ode: The Function of Poetry and Structures of Response in 1629 (with a Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Criticism)." Milton Studies 15. Ed. James D. Simmonds. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1981. 181-200.
"The Yeatsian Presence in A.J.M. Smith's 'Like an Old Proud King in a Parable.'" Canadian Poetry: Studies Documents, Reviews no. 4 (Spring/Summer 1979): 59-64.