Foreword v
History into Fiction
Margaret R. Munk 1
Who Shapes Oral Narrative: A Functionalist and Psychosocial Examination of the Lore of Two Mormon Female Tale-Tellers
Gloria L. Cronin 12
Crying “Change” in a Permanent World: A Look at Contemporary Writings of Mormon Women on Motherhood
Linda P. Wilcox
Scottish Mormon Immigrants and the Muse: Verses from the Dust
Frederick S. Buchan 36
Fued and Fun: Humor in the Poetry of John Lyon
Ted Lyon 59
Book of Mormon Imagery
Richard Dilworth Rust 77
Levi Peterson’s “Road to Damascus” and the Language of Grace
Steven P. Sondrup 87
The Willing Captive: A Study of Freedom in Recent Mormon Fiction
Vernon Jensen 102
The Literary Image of the Mormon Colonies in Mexico
Edward A. Geary 111
Measuring the Achievement of the New LDS Hymnal
Karen Lynn 124
Some Popular Non-Mormon Books Read by Mormons before 1900
Edward L. and Eleanor C. Hart 129
Looking through the Glass Darkly: Early British Perceptions of Mormonism
Thomas R. Burton 141
Making the “Good” Good for Something: A Direction for Mormon Literature
Lavina Fielding Anderson 150