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WRITER'S BLOCK (1991)

REVISION AND ROMANTIC AUTHORSHIP (1996)

ROMANTIC PERIOD WRITINGS 1798-1832: An Anthology (1999)

THE LETTERS OF KINGSLEY AMIS (2000)

ON MODERN BRITISH FICTION (2002)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: The Major Works (2003)

THE LIFE OF KINGSLEY AMIS (2006)

THE MOVEMENT RECONSIDERED: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries (2008)

THE LIFE OF SAUL BELLOW: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964 (2015)

ON LIFE-WRITING (2015)