ARTICLES, CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS, PUBLISHED LECTURESWith Colvin, C. E., entry on Edgeworth, Maria, Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. III, 1969, pp. 665–70
‘The Uniqueness of Cynthia Kirkpatrick: Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters and Maria Edgeworth's Helen’, Review of English Studies 23, 1972, 278–90
‘The Woman at the Window: Radcliffe, Wollstonecraft, Austen’, Women & Literature, n. s. 1, 1980, 128–48
‘Disregarded Designs: Austen's Sense of the Volume’, in Monaghan, David (ed.), Jane Austen in a Social Context, London: Macmillan, 1981, pp. 49–65
‘Myth and Mythmaking in the Shelley Circle’, English Literary History 49, 1982, 50–72; repr. in Everest, Kelvin (ed.), Shelley Revalued: Essays from the Gregynog Conference, Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1983, pp. 1–19
‘Godwin, Burke and Caleb Williams’, Essays in Criticism 22, 1982, 237–57
‘Satire and the Images of Self in the Romantic Period: The Long Tradition of Hazlitt's Liber Amoris’, Yearbook of English Studies, 1983, 209–25; repr. in Rawson, Claude (ed.), English Satire and the Satiric Tradition, Oxford: Blackwell, 1984, pp. 209–25; repr. in Rosso, G. A. and Daniel, P. Watkins (eds.), Spirits of Fire: English Romantic Writers and Comparative Historical Methods, Rutherford, N. J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990, pp. 153–69
‘Learning and the Learned Journals: Literature’, Times Literary Supplement, 16 December 1983, 1397–8
Introduction to Jane Austen, Selected Letters, Oxford: World's Classics, 1985 (repr. of R. W. Chapman's 1955 edition)
‘Nymphs and Nympholepsy: The Visionary Woman and the Romantic Poet’, in Breuer, Rolf, Huber, Werner, and Schöwerling, Rainer (eds.), English Romanticism: The Paderborn Symposium, Essen: Blaue Eule, 1985, pp. 11–31
‘Peacock, Ceres and the Twice-Born Bacchus’, Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin 36, 1985, 57–76
‘History, Politics and Religion’, in Grey, J. D., Litz, A. W., and Southam, B. C. (eds.), Jane Austen Handbook, London: Athlone Press, 1986, pp. 190–209
‘The Case for an Antithetical Historical Criticism’, in McGann, J. J. (ed.), Historical Studies and Literary Interpretation, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986, pp. 25–47
‘Literature as a Heritage: Or Reading Other Ways’. Inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge, 10 November 1987. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988
‘Revising the Canon’, Times Literary Supplement, 4–10 December 1987, 1349, 1359–60
‘Romanticism in England’, in Porter, Roy and Tiech, Mikulás (eds.), Romanticism in National Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 37–67
‘The Orientalism of Byron's Giaour’, in Beatty, Bernard and Newey, Vincent (eds.), Byron and the Limits of Fiction, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1988, pp. 78–96
‘Oxford's Eighteenth-Century Versions’, Eighteenth-Century Life 12, 1988, 128–36
‘Repossessing the Past: The Case for an Open Literary History’, in Levinson, Marjorie et al., Rethinking Historicism, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989, pp. 64–84
‘Romantic Manichaeism: Shelley's “On the Devil” and Byron's Mythological Dramas’, in Bullen, J. B. (ed.), The Sun is God: Painting, Literature and Mythology in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. 13–37
‘Byron and the Empire in the East’, in Andrew Rutherford (ed.), Byron: Augustan and Romantic, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990, pp. 63–81
‘Telling it like a Story: The French Revolution as Narrative’, Studies in Romanticism 28 (Fall 1989), 345–64. Another version, ‘Revolving in Deep Time: The French Revolution as Narrative’, in Hanley, Keith and Selden, Ramon (eds.), Revolution and English Romanticism, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990, pp. 1–22
‘Plotting the Revolution: The Political Narratives of Romantic Poetry and Criticism’, in Johnston, Kenneth, Chaitin, Gilbert, Hansen, Karen, and Marks, Herbert (eds.), Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990, pp. 133–57
Introduction, Mansfield Park, Oxford: World's Classics, 1990
Introduction, Emma, London: Everyman's Library Classics, 1991
Part-author with Philp, Mark of General Introduction, ‘Godwin's Novels’, to Philp (gen. ed.), Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin, 8 vols., London: Pickering and Chatto, 1992, vol. I, pp. 22–47
‘Literary London’, in Fox, Celina (ed.), London: World City 1800–1840, New York and London: Yale University Press, 1992, pp. 187–98
‘John Bull's Other Kingdom: Byron's Intellectual Comedy’, Studies in Romanticism 31, 1992, 281–94
‘The First Frankenstein and Radical Science: How the Original Version of Mary Shelley's Novel Drew Inspiration from the Early Evolutionists’, Times Literary Supplement, 9 Apr. 1993, 12–14
‘Culture's Medium: The Role of the Review’, in Curran, Stuart (ed.), Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 120–47
‘Gray Suits and Black Leather Jackets, Or, Is There an Anglo-American Feminist Criticism?’, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 12, 1993, 209–22
‘Ambush: The Politics of National Curriculum English’, Critical Quarterly 35, 1993, 8–12
‘Orientalism’, in David, B. Pirie (ed.), The Penguin History of English Literature: The Romantic Period, 1994, pp. 395–447, 488–92
‘Doubting Visionaries: Thomson, Barry and the Future of the Arts’, in Brian, T. Allen (ed.), Towards a Modern Art World, Studies in British Art 1, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995, pp. 67–78
‘Editing Women’, Studies in the Novel 27, 1995, 273–83
‘E. P. Thompson and the Uses of History’, History Workshop Journal 39, 1995, 71–8
‘Edgeworth's Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795–1801’, in Ribeiro, Alvaro and James, G. Basker (eds.), Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp./75–93
‘Romanticism and Nationalism: Talking to the Dead’, Questione Romantica: Rivista Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici 2, 1996, 41–52
‘Shelley and the Empire in the East’, in Bennett, Betty T. and Curran, Stuart (eds.), Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, pp. 158–68
‘Burns and Politics’, in Crawford, Robert (ed.), Robert Burns and Cultural Authority, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997, pp. 86–112
‘“The Purple Turban and the Flowering Aloe Tree”: Signs of Distinction in the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel’, Modern Language Quarterly 58, 1997, 475–95
‘Antiquarianism (Popular)’, in McCalman, Iain (ed.), An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776–1832, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 328–38
‘Blake in His Time’, in Hamlyn, Robin and Phillips, Michael (eds.), William Blake, London: Tate Gallery, 2000
‘Irish Culture and Scottish Enlightenment: Maria Edgeworth's Histories of the Future’, in Stefan Collini, Richard Whatmore, and Brian Young (eds.), Economy, Polity, and Society: British Intellectual History 1750–1950, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 158–80
‘Edgeworth's Ireland: History, Popular Culture, and Secret Codes’, Novel 34, 2001, 267–92
‘Edgeworth, the United Irishmen, and “More Intelligent Treason”’, in Kaufman, Heidi and Fauske, Chris (eds.), An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts, Newark: Delaware University Press, 2004, pp. 33–61
REVIEWSReview of Southam, B. C., Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts, Essays in Criticism 15, 1965, 337–41
Review of Rawson, C. J., Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal under Stress: ‘Nature's Dance of Death’ and Other Studies, Essays in Criticism 24, 1974, 298–300
‘Fielding, Whose Contemporary?’, Essays in Criticism 25, 1975, 272–6, 478–9. [An exchange with C. J. Rawson arising from review above.]
Review of Brissenden, R. F., Virtue in Distress: Studies in the Novel of Sentiment from Richardson to Sade, Notes and Queries 23, 1976, 373–4
Review of McMaster, Juliet (ed.), Jane Austen's Achievement: Papers Delivered at the Jane Austen Bicentennial Conference at the University of Alberta, Notes and Queries 25, 1978, 562–3
Review of McGann, Jerome, ‘“Don Juan” in Context’, Essays in Criticism 28, 1978, 52–60
Review of Webb, Timothy, Shelley: A Voice Not Understood, English (Leicester) 28, 1979, 78–83
Review of Kinnaird, John, William Hazlitt: Critic of Power, English (Leicester) 29, 1980, 50–6
Review of Sikes, Herschel Moreland (ed.), The Letters of William Hazlitt, English (Leicester) 29, 1980, 50–6
Review of Williams, Ioan, The Idea of the Novel in Europe, 1600–1800, Notes and Queries 27, 1980, 373–4
Review of Jackson, J. R. de J., Poetry of the Romantic Period, English (Leicester) 29, 1980, 239–45
Review of Todd, Janet, Women's Friendship in Literature, Essays in Criticism 31, 1981, 246–9
Review of Nancy, K. Miller, The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English Novel 1722–1782, Essays in Criticism 31, 1981, 246–9
Review of Eagleton, Terry, The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson, Times Literary Supplement, 12 Nov. 1982, 1241–2
Review of Jerry, C. Beasley, Novels of the 1740s, Times Literary Supplement, 12 Nov. 1982, 1242
Review of Roberts, Warren, Jane Austen and the French Revolution, English Historical Review 97, 1982, 204–5
Review of Daphinoff, Dimiter (ed.), An Alternative Ending to Richardson's ‘Clarissa’, Times Literary Supplement, 12 Nov. 1982, 1241
Review of David Pirie, William Wordsworth: The Poetry of Grandeur and of Tenderness, and of Jonathan Wordsworth, William Wordsworth: The Borders of Vision, London Review of Books, 5 Dec. 1983, 18–19
Review of Burnett, T. A. J., The Rise and Fall of a Regency Dandy: The Life and Times of Scrope Berdmore Davies, Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin 34, 1983, 80–5
Review of Stapleton, Michael, The Cambridge Guide to English Literature, London Review of Books 5. 15, 1983, 14–16
Review of Mitchell, Leslie, Holland House, Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin 34, 1983, 80–5
Review of Coleman, Janet, English Literature in History, 1350–1400: Medieval Readers and Writers, Barrell, John, English Literature in History 1730–80: An Equal, Wide Survey, and Sales, Roger, English Literature in History 1780–1830: Pastoral and Politics, London Review of Books 5.15, 1983, 14–16
Review of Paul, F. Betz (ed.), Benjamin the Wagoner, London Review of Books 5.12, 1983, 18–19
Review of Percy, G. Adams, Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel, Times Literary Supplement, 22 June 1984, 689
Review of Vendler, Helen, The Odes of John Keats, Hudson Review 37, 1984, 143–50
Review of Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition, Robinson, Eric (ed.), John Clare's Autobiographical Writings, Grainger, Margaret (ed.), The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare, and Tibble, Anne (ed.), The Journal, Essays, the Journey from Essex, London Review of Books 6.22/23, 1984, 3–5
Review of Smith, Olivia, The Politics of Language, 1791–1819, and Jerome, J. McGann, The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory, London Review of Books 7.22, 1985, 11–13
Review of Halperin, John, The Life of Jane Austen, New York Times Book Review, 24 Feb. 1985, 25
Review of Thomas, C. Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe, Times Literary Supplement, 3 Jan. 1986, 3–4
Review of Burrows, J. F., Computation into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels and an Experiment in Method, London Review of Books 9. 12, 1987, 11–13
Review of Baldick, Chris, In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity and Nineteenth-Century Writing, London Review of Books 10. 9, 1988, 12–13
Review of Spivak, Gayatri, In Other Worlds, Times Literary Supplement, 11–17, March 1988, 283–4
Review of Mason, Michael (ed.), Lyrical Ballads, Eilenberg, Susan, Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Literary Possession, and Roe, Nicholas, The Politics of Nature: Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries, london Review of Books 14.15, 1992, 12–13
Review of Jerome, J. McGann (ed.), The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse, London Review of Books 16.20, 1994, 33–4
Review of Sutherland, John, The Life of Walter Scott, London Review of Books 17. 17, 1995, 10–11
Review of Ricks, Christopher, Essays in Appreciation, London Review of Books 18. 15, 1996, 15–16
Review of McIntyre, Ian, Dirt and Deity: A Life of Robert Burns, London Review of Books 18. 3, 1996, 9–10
Review of Nokes, David, Jane Austen: A Life, and Tomalin, Claire, Jane Austen: A Life, London Review of Books 20. 5, 1998, 3–6
