selected publications
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article
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Review of The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser, by Jerome Loving..
American Book Review.
26.
2005
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Review of Conclave, by Roberto Pazzi..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
23:140.
2003
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'Catching the War': Jessica Swanlake's Brief Liberation..
Pynchon.
Notes:50.
2002
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Review of Someone to Watch Over Me, by Paul Wilson..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
22.
2002
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Being a Collection of Essays on the Works of Sinclair Lewis..
Midwestern Miscellany.
29:3-64.
2001
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Review of Fludd, by Hilary Mantel and Every Day is Mother's Day, by Hilary Mantel..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
21:207.
2001
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Review of Grimm's Last Fairytale, by Haydn Middleton..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
21:217.
2001
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Review of Letters From the Editor: 'The New Yorker's' Harold Ross, by Harold Ross, edited by Thomas Kunkel..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
21.
2001
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'War is a Horrible Thing': Looking at Lewis' Political Philosophy Through Hike and the Aeroplane..
Midwestern Miscellany.
28:32-40.
2000
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Review of The Temple of Iconoclasts, by J. Rudolfo Wilcock, translated by Lawrence Venuti..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
20.
2000
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The Clue in the Old Book: Relating Adolescent Fiction to American Culture..
Exercise Exchange.
45:8-10.
2000
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Review of After Dunkirk, by Milena McGraw..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
19:203.
1999
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Review of Is Sex Necessary?: Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do, by James Thurber and E. B. White..
Review fo Contemporary Fiction.
19.
1999
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Review of Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited, edited by Rick Moody and Darcey Steinke..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
18:258.
1998
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Who Shall We Hear Speak?: Teaching the New Testament as a Literature Course..
Exercise Exchange.
44:13-15.
1998
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Review of Crowning the Queen of Love, by Susan Welch..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
17.
1997
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Review of Dewey Defeats Truman, by Thomas Mallon..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
17.
1997
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Review of Into the Forest, by Jean Hegland..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
17:196.
1997
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Review of Where the Oceans Meet, by Bhargavi C. Mandava..
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
17.
1997
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Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo? Musical Moods in the Casino Hermann Goering..
Pynchon Notes.
40-41:176-179.
1997
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From Baxter's Island to Broadway: The Yearling Musical..
Journal of Florida Literature.
7:urnal of F.
1996
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Review of Strategies for Identity, by Eleonora Rao..
Utopian Studie.
6:215-216.
1995
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Why Did They Do That?: Using Film to Comment on Texts..
Exercise Exchange.
40:9-11.
1995
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Upton-Sinclair-Lewis: The Crossed Paths of Two American Reformer-Novelists..
Connecticut Review.
16:81-92.
1994
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'Make the Message Clear': The Failure of Language in Marjorie Kinnan Rawling's New Yorker Stories..
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature.
5:39-49.
1993
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Is the Shrew Tamed?: Interpretation and Performance in 'The Taming of the Shrew.'.
Exercise Exchange.
39:16-19.
1993
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Gopher Prairie, Zenith, and Grand Republic: Nice Places to Visit, but Would Even Sinclair Lewis Want To Live There?.
Midwestern Miscellany.
20:15-27.
1992
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Symbolic Divergence: Communication and Alienation in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's 'The Pelican Shadow.'.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature.
3:49-58.
1991
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The Changing Fictional Faces of Sinclair Lewis' Wives..
Studies in American Fiction.
17:65-79.
1989
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Using Foreign Investment to Structure Assignments for a Business Communications Class..
Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication.
50:28-30.
1987
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Review of The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser, by Jerome Loving..
American Book Review.
26.
2005
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book
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Grant Wood's Main Street: Art, Literature and the American Midwest..
Ames, IA: University Museums, Iowa State University.
2004
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Hike and the Aeroplane..
Hawley, PA: YaleBooks Press, Ltd..
1999
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Grant Wood's Main Street: Art, Literature and the American Midwest..
Ames, IA: University Museums, Iowa State University.
2004
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thesis or dissertation
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unclassified publications
- 'You Are Needed, Desperately Needed!': Cherry Ames in World War II. In Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series, edited by Sherrie A. Inness, 129-144.
- Boundary Ambiguity and the Politics of Abortion: Women's Choices in Ann Vickers and Kingsblood. In Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism, edited by James M. Hutchisson, 68-79.
- Dodsworth and World So Wide: Sinclair Lewis's European/American Dilemma. In Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference, edited by Michael Connaughton, 27-34.
- Learning to Fight the Nazis: The Education of Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd. In Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture, edited by M. Paul Holsinger and Mary Anne Schofield, 47-55.
- Sinclair Lewis Studies, 1977-1996: An Annotated Bibliography. In Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism, edited by James M. Hutchisson, 202-248.
- The Secret of the Feminist Heroine: The Search for Values in Nancy Drew and Judy Bolton. In Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series, edited by Sherrie A. Inness, 145-158.
- Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd: The Allies' Secret Weapon Against the Third Reich. In Germany and German Thought in American Literature and Cultural Criticism, edited by Peter Freese, 190-204.