Selected Essays and Reviews:
“Someone New to Love.” Review of The Golden Mean, by Annabel Lyon. Open Letters Monthly (November 2010).
“What Seems Simple.” Review of Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, ed. Patricia Meyer Spacks (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2010). Open Letters Monthly (October 2010).
“The Last Pages of Emma: Austen’s Epithalamium.” Persuasions 23 (2001): 188-96. Rpt. in Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Emma, New Edition, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 2010).
Review of Glass Voices, by Carol Bruneau (Toronto, ON: Cormorant, 2007). The Diocesan Times (February 2008): 7.
“The Tragic Action of Mansfield Park.” Persuasions On-line 28.1 (Winter 2007).
“Canadian and American Readers of Jane Austen’s Happy Endings.” Jane Austen and the North Atlantic. Ed. Sarah Emsley. Chawton, Hampshire: Jane Austen Society, 2006. 49-59.
“Laughing at Our Neighbors: Jane Austen and the Problem of Charity.” Persuasions On-line 26.1 (Winter 2005).
“‘All I ask is a comfortable home’: Jane Austen and the Idea of Home.” With Sue Bain. Part 1, Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine 10 (July 2004): 6-9; Part 2, Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine 11 (September 2004): 38-41.
“Sexual Purity and Relentless Indecision in Wharton’s The Reef: A Reply to Pat Menon.” The New Compass 3 (June 2004).
“Piano-practising.” Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine 6 (November 2003): 18-21.
“The Importance of Being Amiable.” Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine 3 (May 2003): 5-7.
“A ‘Better English’: Edith Wharton on Language in Fiction.” The Edith Wharton Review 19.1 (2003): 23-27.
“The Reputation of Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Humphry) Ward.” Nineteenth-Century Feminisms 7 (2003): 53-64.
Review of Jane Austen’s ‘Outlandish Cousin’: The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide, by Deirdre LeFaye (London: British Library, 2002). The Dalhousie Review 83.2 (2003): 303-306.
“‘My idea of a chapel’ in Jane Austen’s World.” Persuasions 24 (2002): 133-42.
“Practising the Virtues of Amiability and Civility in Pride and Prejudice.” Persuasions 22 (2000): 187-98.
“Radical Marriage.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 11.4 (1999): 477-98.
