- Hugo von Hofmannsthal: The Theaters of Consciousness (Cambridge Studies in German)
- Beyond Theory: Eighteenth-Century German Literature and the Poetics of Irony
- The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats
- Shaping a Modern Ethics: The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism
- Aesthetics as Secular Millenialism: Its Trail from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler