Areas of Research/Interest
Modern literature; critical theory

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

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

Publications

Course in General Linguistics. Co-ed. with Haun Saussy.  Trans Wade Baskin.  By Ferdinand de Saussure.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan.  Oxford: Blackwell Manifestos, 2010.

The Literary Freud. Routledge, 2007.

The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll. Oxford University Press, 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. Co-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.

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