Publications

Books

2001. Agnes C. Laut. Lords of the North. [1900] Ed. and Introduction by Valerie Legge. Ottawa : Tecumseh Press.

Book Chapters

"With 'High Hearts': Women Travelers to Newfoundland and Labrador." Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador. Edited by Maria Jesus Hernaez Lerena. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2015. 51-73.

2010. "Sheila Watson's Antigone: Anguished Rituals and Acts of Public Disturbance." Previously published in Studies in Canadian Literature 17.2 (July 1993) was reprinted in Short Story Criticism, vol 128 (Cengage/Gale). This article has been referenced by Danna Palmateer Pennee in her 1994 PhD thesis titled Femicide in the Critical Construction of The Double Hook: A Case Study in the Interrelations of Modernism, Literary Nationalism, and Cultural Maturity ( McGill University ). Go to digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile28509.pdf And it has been referenced by Reingard M Nischik in The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations (2008).

2010. "Heralds of Empire: Liminal Heroes and Visionary Fugitives" in Nation-State Discourses of Cultural Identity in Canada . Edited by Miroslawa Buchholtz and Eugenia Sojka. Craco Universitas.

2009. "'Exotic Geographies': Early Twentieth-Century Constructions of Quebec and the American Southwest." In From the Foundation of Quebec City to Present-day Canada (1608-2008): Retrospections, Path of Change, Challenges. Poland : University of Silesia .

2006. "'Why Go Abroad?' Agnes Laut in Wonderland." Literary Environments: Canada and the Old World . NACS Proceedings. Ed. Britta Olinder. Stockholm , Sweden : Peter Lang.

2001. "Worldly Women and the Land of Frost and Fire." Rediscovering Canadian Difference. Ed. Gudrun Bjork Gudsteins. Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series Volume 17. Reykjavík , Iceland .

1998. "Journey-Women in the Ark of the Wilderness." Canada and the Nordic Countries in Times of Reorientation: Literature and Criticism. Ed. Jorn Carlsen. Aarhus , Denmark : Aarhus University Press.

1998. "Agnes C. Laut: What the New Nation to the North Thinks of the United States ." Informal Empire? Cultural Relations between Canada , the United States and Europe . Ed. Peter Easingwood, Konrad Groβ, and Hartmut Lutz. Kiel , Germany : l&f Verlag.

1997. "Agnes C. Laut's Freebooters of the Wilderness: Borderlands and Visionary Fugitives." Alternative Frontiers: Voices from the Mountain West. Ed. Allen Seager, Leonard Evenden, Rowland Lorimer Robin Mathews. Montreal : Association for Canadian Studies.

1996. "Lily Dougall's The Madonna of a Day (1895): Spiritual Fortress Inviolate; or, Falling into [W]holiness." Quilting a New Canon: Stitching Women's Words, ed. Uma Parameswaran. Toronto : Sister Vision Press.

Articles

'Agnes C. Laut: High Ideals and Dreams of Unity." Studies in Canadian Literature. Fall 2017. 1-25.

"Rona Rangsch and The Vinland Phenomenon: From Medieval to Modern." Submitted to Riddle Fence 2016. Text by Valerie Legge and Visuals by Rona Rangsch.

"Elizabeth Bishop in Newfoundland : 'Sad and Still and Foreign.'" Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. 22.2 (Fall 2007): 429-46.

"Heralds of Empire: Liminal Heroes and Visionary Fugitives." International Journal of Canadian Studies [Time, Space and Place] 15 (Spring 1997): 135-150.

"The Guerrillero": Albalucía Angel and the Politics of Terror." Peace and Change 21.4 (October 1996): 409-423. This article has been referenced in Charles F Howlett's "Studying America's Struggle against War: An Historical Perspective" in The History Teacher 36.3 (May 2003).

"Sheila Watson's Antigone: Anguished Rituals and Acts of Public Disturbance." Studies in Canadian Literature 17.2 (July 1993): 28-46.

"Kristjana Gunnars' Zero Hour: 'When Mourning Becomes Language'." Essays in Comparative Literature, Ed. Suresh Chandra Verma (New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1998) 311-321.

"Foremothers, the New Nation, and Our Literary History." Facsimile Newsletter: Canadiana on Microfiche. Ed. Lorraine McMullen. No. 17 (May 1997): 8-12.

"Foremothers, the New Nation, and Our Literary History." Was reprinted on Canadian Studies Website (Early Canadiana) at the request of Pamela Bjornson, National Library, Ottawa .

Book Reviews

Review of I Keep the Land Alive by Elizabeth Penashue. Canadian Literature Forthcoming 2020.

Review of Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens by Shelley Boyd. University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 84.2 (Spring 2015).

Review of Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis. Edited by Patricia Demers. Canadian Literature. 220 (Spring 2014) 151-54. Also available at canlit.ca. Canadian Literature, 24 September 2014 Web.

Review of Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. 22.2 (Fall 2007): 555-57.

Review of The Wreckage by Michael Crummey. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. 22.2 (Fall 2007): 561-65.

Review of ReCalling Early Canada : Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production. Edited by Jennifer Blair, Daniel Coleman, Kate Higginson, and Lorraine York. The American Review of Canadian Studies. 36.1 (Spring 2006): 156-160.

"'Much Better to Endure, Leuconoë': Alastair Macdonald's If More Winters, or This the Last." Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. 22.1 (Spring 2007): 391-94.

"Journeying to a Place Beyond Rescue:" Joan Clark's Latitudes of Melt. Newfoundland Studies. 2005. 387-89.'

"'Breaks Like a Heart without Letting Go'." Review of Michael Crummey's Arguments with Gravity. Newfoundland Studies. 13.1/2 (Spring/Fall 1997): 98-101.

"All Her Relations." Review of Catherine Parr Traill's 'I Bless You in My Heart' Selected Correspondence." Essays on Canadian Writing. 63 (Spring 1998): 99-107.

"Women, Writing and Marginalia: Bernice Morgan's Waiting for Time." Newfoundland Studies. 12. ½ (Spring/Fall 1996): 62-66.

"Voyeuristic Voyageur: Alistair Macdonald's A Figure on the Move and Landscapes of Time." Newfoundland Studies 11.1 (Fall 1995): 145-150.

"Philip Gardner's Talking to Ghosts: Selected Poems 1983-1992: 'Slow Notes of Loss and of Longing'." Tickle Ace No. 27 (Spring/Summer 1994): 140-43.

"Resistance and Celebration: The Plays of CODCO." Tickle Ace No. 25 Anniversary Issue (Spring/Summer 1993): 220-225.

"J. G. Sime's Sister Woman: Understanding the Mother-Tongue." Canadian Literature. (Fall 1993): 137-138.

"Saying the Sorrowful Mysteries." Review of A Small Place in the Sun, by Patrick O'Flaherty. The Sunday Telegram 22 October 1989.