Book Reviews & Essays
Book Reviews and Review Essays
Robin Inglis, Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America. BC Studies, forthcoming.
"Writing History about Literatures amidst ‘the Limitations, Challenges, and Successes of a Multicultural Country.’" Eva-Marie Kröller and Coral Ann Howells, eds. The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, no. 66 (Spring/Summer 2010): 117-34.
Michael Peterman, Sisters in Two Worlds: A Visual Biography of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. English Studies in Canada 35:2 (2009): 233-36.
Janice Cavell, Tracing the Connected Narrative: Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818-1860. Arctic: The Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, 63.1 (Mar. 2010): 113-15.
Dorothy Harley Eber, Encounters on the Passage. Papers/Cahiers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 47.2 (Fall 2009): 255-58.
Russell A. Potter, Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875. Polar Record, 45 (2009): 87-89.
Barbara Belyea, Dark Storm moving West: Essays in early Western History. Manitoba History, no. 57 (Feb. 2008): 55-56.
Jack Nisbet, The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau. BC Studies, nos. 156/157 (Winter/Spring 2007/2008): 183-86.
Darcy Jenish, Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West. Canadian Literature, no. 188 (Spring 2006): 149-50.
Wayne K. Davies, Writing Geographical Exploration: James and the Northwest Passage 1631-33. Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America 58 (2005): 81-2.
Sherrill E. Grace, Canada and the Idea of North. Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, 56 (2003): 300-02.
“Ouestward Bound.” Jill Frayne, Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-Life Journey into Wild Land; and Dennis Combet, ed., In Search of the Western Sea/À la Recherche de la Mer de l’Ouest: Selected Journals of La Vérendrye/Mémoires choisis de La Vérendrye. Canadian Literature, no. 174 (Autumn 2002): 133-36.
William Barr, ed., Searching for Franklin: The Land Arctic Search Expedition. James Anderson's and James Stewart's Expedition via the Back River, 1855. Arctic 53:3 (Sept. 2000): 321-23.
"Glancing Back, Fondly." Ian G. Lumsden, Early Views of British North America from the Collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery; and Diane Eaton and Sheila Urbanek, Paul Kane's Great Nor-West. Canadian Literature 165 (Summer 2000): 147-48.
John Moss, ed., Echoing Silence: Essays on Arctic Narrative. University of Toronto Quarterly 69:1 (Winter 1999/2000):162-63.
Searching for the Franklin Expedition: The Arctic Journal of Robert Randolph Carter. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 31 (1999):209.
"Murder on the Atwood Express." Margaret Atwood, Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews no. 40 (Spring/Summer 1997): 103-05.
William Barr and Glyndwr Williams, eds., Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage 1741-1747, Volume II: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746-1747. Canadian Historical Review 78 (1997) 331-33.
"Cartier's Voyages Again." Ramsay Cook, introd., The Voyages of Jacques Cartier. Canadian Literature 147 (Winter 1995): 176-78.
D.M.R. Bentley, Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada. University of Toronto Quarterly 65:1 (Winter 1995/96): 214-16.
Barbara Belyea, ed., Columbia Journals, David Thompson. Canadian Historical Review 76 (1995): 685-87.
William Barr and Glyndwr Williams, eds., Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage 1741-1747. Vol. 1: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 23 (1995): 516-17.
"Writing, America." Bruce Greenfield, Narrating Discovery: The Romantic Explorer in American Literature, 1790-1855. Canadian Literature 145 (Summer 1995): 133-34.
"Buried Nuggets." Mary Lu MacDonald, Literature and Society in the Canadas 1817-1850. Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews no. 34 (Spring/Summer 1994): 99-129.
David C. Woodman, Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony. Victorian Periodicals Review XXVI:4 (Winter 1993): 241-44.
William Barr, ed. and trans., A Frenchman in Search of Franklin: De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-1854. Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America 46 (1993): 368-70.
Donald C. Cutter, Malaspina & Galiano: Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast 1792 &1793. Canadian Literature no. 136 (Spring 1993): 152-55.
Richard C. Poulsen, The Landscape of the Mind: Cultural Transformations of the American West. Choice 30 (Feb. 1993): 963-64.
Donald B. Smith, From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Grey Owl. Prairie Forum 14.2 (Fall 1992): 361-64.
Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Choice 30 (Oct. 1992): 294.
James P. Ronda, Astoria and Empire. Great Plains Quarterly 12 (1992): 216-17.
John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright. Edmonton Journal, 19 Apr. 1992.
William Dowie, Peter Matthiessen. Choice 29 (Apr. 1992): 1223.
Gertrude Story, After Sixty: Going Home. Choice 29 (Dec. 1991): 597.
Dennis Porter, Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing. Choice 29 (Oct. 1991): 275.
Kenneth S. Coates and William R. Morrison, eds., For Purposes of Dominion: Essays in Honour of Morris Zaslow. Canadian Historical Review 72 (1991): 239-41.
Kenneth James Hughes, ed., Contemporary Manitoba Writers: New Critical Studies. Choice 28 (July/Aug. 1991): 1778.
Miles Clark, High Endeavours: The Extraordinary Life of Miles and Beryl Smeeton. The Edmonton Journal, 23 June 1991.
Robert Perkins, Into the Great Solitude: An Arctic Journey. Pathways: Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, vol. 3, no. 5 (Aug. 1991): 26-27.
Carole Gerson, A Purer Taste: The Writing and Reading of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Canada. Victorian Review 16.2 (Winter 1990): 77-81.
"Truing the True North." Heinrich Klutschak, Overland to Starvation Cove: With Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880, ed. and transl. by William Barr; Pierre Berton, The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909. The American Review of Canadian Studies 20 (1990): 365-73.
"Hauling at the Traces." J.A. Wainwright, Flight of the Falcon. Essays on Canadian Writing 40 (1990): 25-31.
"When is a Reprint not a Reprint?" Frank M. Tierney and Glenn Clever, eds. Nineteenth-Century Narrative Poetry. Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews no. 24 (Spring/Summer 1989): 81-85.
"Essentially Ironic." Michael Darling, ed., Perspectives on Mordecai Richler; John Metcalfe, ed., The Bumper Book. Canadian Literature no. 120 (Spring 1989): 196-200.
Fred Stenson, ed., Alberta Bound: Thirty Stories by Alberta Writers. Alberta: Studies in the Arts and Sciences 1.2 (Fall 1988): 146-49.
"The Roberts Symposium." Glenn Clever, ed., The Charles G.D. Roberts Symposium. Dalhousie Review 67 (1987): 109-15. (Expanded version of the review, University of Toronto Quarterly 54 (1985): 438-40.)
Alexander M. Ross, The Imprint of the Picturesque on Nineteenth-Century British Fiction. English Studies in Canada 14 (1988): 108-112.
"The McGregor Syndrome; or, The Survival of Isolated Butterflies on Rocks in the Haunted Wilderness of the Unnamed Bush Garden Beyond the Land Itself." Gaile McGregor, The Wacousta Syndrome: Explorations in the Canadian Langscape. Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews no. 18 (Spring/Summer 1986): 118-30.
"Beyond Belles Lettres." Percy G. Adams, Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel. University of Toronto Quarterly 54 (1985): 204-09.
"Arctic Ghosts." C. Stuart Houston, ed., Arctic Ordeal: The Journal of John Richardson Surgeon-Naturalist with Franklin 1819-1822; C. Stuart Houston, ed., To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1821: The Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood, Midshipman with Franklin; George Whalley, ed., Death in the Barren Ground; W. Gillies Ross, ed., An Arctic Whaling Diary: The Journal of Captain George Comer in Hudson Bay, 1903-1905; and Heather Robertson, ed., A Gentleman Adventurer: The Arctic Diaries of R.H.G. Bonnycastle. Saturday Night (March 1985): 49-54.
Gerald Finley, George Heriot: Postmaster-Painter of the Canadas. University of Toronto Quarterly 53 (1984): 502-04.
Michael Darling, A.J.M. Smith: An Annotated Bibliography. Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews no. 11 (Fall/Winter 1982): 141-45.