Edited books
- Roger Fry, Vision and Design. Oxford. OUP 1981.
- Clive Bell, Art. Oxford. OUP. 1987.
- The Post-Impressionists in England: the Critical Response. London. Routledge. 1988.
- The Sun is God: Painting, Literature and Mythology in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford. The Clarendon Press. 1989.
- Writing and Victorianism. London and New York. Longman. 1997.
Chapters in books
- 'Raising the Dead: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's “Willowwood” Sonnets'. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry, ed Matthew Bevis. Oxford. Oxford University Press 2013.
- 'Pater and Ruskin on Michelangelo: Two Contrasting Views.' Reprinted in Walter Pater: An Imaginative Sense of Fact, ed. Philip Dodd. London. Frank Cass. 1981.
- 'The Mona Lisa as a Symbol of Romanticism,' in The Romantic Heritage, ed. Karsten Engelberg. Copenhagen. University of Copenhagen Press. 1983.
- 'English Criticism and French Post-Impressionist Painting', in Studies in Anglo French Cultural Relations: Imagining France, eds. Ceri Crossley and Ian Small. London. Macmillan 1988.
- 'The Gods in Wessex Exile: Thomas Hardy and Mythology', in The Sun is God: Painting Literature, and Mythology in the Nineteenth Century. 1989.
- 'The Historiography of Studies in the History of the Renaissance', in Pater in the 1990s, eds. Laurel Brake and Ian Small. English Literature in Transition Press. 1991.
- 'Ruskin and the Tradition of Renaissance Historiography', in The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture, eds. Michael Wheeler and Nigel Whitely. Manchester. Manchester University Press. 1992.
- 'Coleridge and Early Italian Art', English Studies in Transition eds. Robert Clark and Piero Boitani. Routledge. 1993.
- 'Hardy's The Well-Beloved, Sex, and Theories of Germ Plasm', in A Spacious Vision: Essays on Hardy, Phillip V. Mallett and Ronald P. Draper. Patten Press. 1994.
- 'Ruskin, Gautier, and the Feminization of Venice', in Dinah Birch and Francis O'Gorman eds. Ruskin and Gender. Basingstoke. Palgrave. 2002.
- 'Sara Losh; architect, romantic, mythologist' in The Burlington Magazine: a centenary anthology, ed. Michael Levey. Yale University Press. 2003.
- 'Gauguin en Grand-Bretagne: son accueil à Londres en 1910-1911', in Paul Gauguin; héritage et confrontations, (ed.), Ricardo Pinieri. Université de la Poynésie Française, Papetée. 2003.
Articles
- 'Literature and the Media: Is Thomas Hardy a "Cinematographic Novelist?": The Problem of Adaptation', The Yearbook of English Studies, 20 (1990), 48-59.
- 'John Everett Millais and Charles Dickens: New Light on Old Lamps', English Literature in Transition, Special Series no. 4 (1990), 125-144.
- 'A Clash of Discourses: the Reception of Venetian Painting in England 1750-1850', Word and Image 8 no. 2 (June-Aug. 1992), 109-123.
- 'The Romantics and Early Italian Art', Keats-Shelley Review, 8 (193-94), 1-20.
- 'Ruskin, Venice, and the Construction of Femininity', Review of English Studies, 46 (1995), 502-520.
- 'The Strange Fruit of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market', Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, 5 (1998), 77-87.
- 'Burne-Jones' Dream Work', Modern Painters 11 (Winter 1998), 92-4.
- 'Pater, Mill, Mansel, and the Context of the Conclusion to The Renaissance', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 21 (1998), 1-15.
- 'Byzantinism and Modernism', Burlington Magazine, 151 (1999), 665-675.
- 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Mirror of Masculine Desire', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 21 (1999), 329-52.
- 'Sara Losh, Architect, Romantic, Mythologist', Burlington Magazine, 143 (2001), 676-684.
- 'Great British Gauguin: his reception in London in 1910-11', Apollo, 158 no 500 (2003), 3-12.
- 'D. H. Lawrence, sculpture and Women in Love', Burlington Magazine, 145 (2003), 841-846.
- 'Alfred Waterhouse's Romanesque "Temple of Nature: the Natural History Museum, London," Architectural history, vol. 49, 2006, pp. 257-285.
