- Fly (Reaktion, 2006)
- The Book of Skin (Reaktion / Cornell UP, 2004)
- Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (Oxford UP, 2000)
- James Joyce (Northcote House, 1996)
- The English Novel in History, 1950 to 1995 (Routledge, 1995)
- Theory and Cultural Value (Blackwell, 1992)
- Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary (Blackwell, 1989; 1996)
- Samuel Beckett: Repetition, Theory and Text (Blackwell, 1988)
- Charles Dickens (Blackwell, 1985)