Areas of Research/Interest: modern literature; critical theory

Select Publications:
The Literary Freud. Routledge, 2007.
The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll. Oxford. 1998.
The Myth of the Modern: A Study in British Literature and Criticism After 1850. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1987.
Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924-1925, ed. with Walter Kendrick. New York: Basic Books. 1985.
Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall., 1981.
The Absent Father: Virginia Woolf and Walter Pater. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1980.
Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Repressed. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1972.

Affiliations: National Book Critics Circle, PEN, Modern Language Association.

Fellowships/Honors: Spencer Founding Grant, 1977-1978; National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 1977.