See the entry for Richard Dilworth Rust at the new Mormon Literature Database.
Richard Dilworth Rust is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is general editor of The Complete Works of Washington Irving, and has published on Cooper, Irving, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, O'Neill, and the Civil War. Rust has pioneered reading the Book of Mormon as literature.
"The Book of Mormon: Designed for Our Day," Review of Books of the Book of Mormon 2 (1990): 1-23
"Poetry in the Book of Mormon," Rediscovering the Book of Mormon, ed. John L. Sorenson and Melvin J. Thorne. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1991. 100-13
"Book of Mormon Imagery," Rediscovering the Book of Mormon, ed. John L. Sorenson and Melvin J. Thorne. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1991. 132-39
"Book of Mormon Literature," in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 5 vols. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992. I: 181-85
"Taste and Feast: Images of Eating and Drinking in the Book of Mormon," BYU Studies 33:4 (1993): 743-52
"Recurrence in Book of Mormon Narratives," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 3 (Spring 1994): 39-52.
"'Virtuous, Lovely, or of Good Report': Thoughts on a Latter-day Saint Literary Criticism." Paper presented at the Literature and Belief Colloquium at Brigham Young University, March 31, 1995 in a panel entitled, "Toward a Latter-day Saint Literary Criticism."
Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book and Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1997.
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