• Mendelssohn & Co.: A Fictive Memoir. Anaphora Literary Press, 2018.
• Edgar and Brigitte: A German Jewish Passage to America. The University of Alabama Press, 2016.
• Knowing Dickens. Cornell University Press, 2007. Paperback edition, 2010.
• The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction. Cornell University Press, 1994. Paperback edition, 1996. Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1995. 
• The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction. Cornell University Press, 1988. Paperback edition, 1991.

In Process: Mendelssohn & Co.: An Imagined Life

• “Afterword,” forthcoming in Narrative, special issue, “Revisiting Dialogue,” ed. Laura Green and William Cohen. 
• “Free Indirect Discourse,” Victorian Literature and Culture 46: 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2018): 706-709.
• “Biographical Dickens.” The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens. Ed. Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan, and Catherine Waters. Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 9-24.
• “George Eliot’s Last Stand: Impressions of Theophrastus Such.” Victorian Literature and Culture 44.3 (2016): 607-621. 
• “Dickens and the Knowing Child.” Dickens and the Imagined Child. Ed. Peter Merchant and Catherine Waters. Ashgate, 2015. 13-26.
• “Slapstick Noir: The Secret Agent Works the Victorian Novel.”  Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel. Ed. Lisa Rodensky. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. 746-754.
• “London in the Victorian Novel.” The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London. Ed. Lawrence Manley. Cambridge UP, 2011. 142-159.
• “Copperfield’s Geographies.” Dickens Studies Annual 42 (2011): 177-191. 
• “The Nice Work of Victorian Novels in Thatcher’s England.” In Victorian Turns and Neo-Victorian Returns, ed. Penny Gay, Judith Johnston and Catherine Waters. Cambridge Scholars Press (2008), pp.  171-181.
• “Dickens, Fascinated.” Victorian Studies 48.2 (2006): 268-276.
• "Dickens and the Writing of a Life." In Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies, ed. John Bowen and Robert Patten (2005) 48-68.
• “Autobiography in Fragments: The Elusive Life of Edith Simcox.” Victorian Studies 44.3 (Spring 2002): 399-422.
• “Dickens and the Identical Man: Our Mutual Friend Doubled.” Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 31 (2002): 159-174.
• “A Woman of Many Names.” In A Cambridge Companion to George Eliot, ed. George Levine (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 20-37. 
• "Knowing and Telling in Dickens's Retrospects." In Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture, ed. Suzy Anger (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2001), 215-233.
• "Mary Ann Evans's Holy War: An Essay in Letter-Reading." Nineteenth-Century Literature 44 (December 1989): 335-363.
• "Ambition and its Audiences: George Eliot's Performing Figures." Victorian Studies  34 (Autumn 1990): 7-33.
• "George Eliot and the Power of Evil-Speaking." Dickens Studies Annual 20 (1991): 201-226.
• "The Interregnum of Ownership in July's People." The Later Fiction of Nadine Gordimer, ed. Bruce King (London: Macmillan, 1992), 108-120.
• "Jane Eyre in Search of Her Story." Papers on Language and Literature 16 (1980): 387-402. Reprinted in The Brontë's: Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1987), 155-168.
• "Looking at the Landscape in Jane Austen." Studies in English Literature 21 (1981): 605-623.
• "Private Griefs and Public Acts in Mary Barton." Dickens Studies Annual 9 (1981): 195-216. Reprinted in Mary Barton, Norton Critical Edition, ed. Thomas Recchio, 2008. 
• "The Romantic Impasse in A Passage to India." Criticism 22 (1980): 40-56.
• "St. Mawr, A Passage to India, and the Question of Influence." D.H.Lawrence Review 13 (1980); 134-149.
• "North and South: A Permanent State of Change." Nineteenth-Century Fiction (December 1979): 281-301. Reprinted in North and South, Norton Critical Edition, 2004.
• "Dickens and the Art of Pastoral." Centennial Review 23 (1979): 452-467. 

• Philip Davis, The Transferred Life of George Eliot, forthcoming in Victorian Studies.
• Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw, eds. A Companion to George Eliot. Victorian Studies 58:1 (Autumn 2015) 119-122.
• Fionnuala Dillane, Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press and K.M. Newton, Modernizing George Eliot. Victorian Studies 56:4 (Summer 2014): 714-717.
• Malcolm Andrews, Dickensian Laughter: Essays on Dickens and Hiumour. The Dickensian 110:1 (Spring 2014): 57-59.
• James D. Loy and Kent M. Loy, Emma Darwin:A Victorian Life and Lillian Nayder, The Other Dickens. Journal of British Studies 52.3 (2013). 
• Nancy Henry, The Life of George Eliot. The George Eliot Review 43 (2012): 62-64. 
• Andrew H. Miller, The Burdens of Perfection, forthcoming in Modern Language Quarterly.
• “George Gissing,” review essay in London Review of Books, summer 2009.
• “Secret-Keeping,” review essay on the Pickering edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s works, London Review of Books 29.16 (16 August 2007).
• Barbara Hardy, George Eliot: A Critic’s Biography. The George Eliot Review 38 (2007): 49-50.
• Catherine Gallagher, The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. Nineteenth-Century Literature 61.1 (2006): 103-107.
• Caroline Levine, The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt. Modern Language Quarterly 66.3 (2005): 404-406.