- Mind and the American Civil War: A Meditation on Lost Causes (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)
- The Brazen Face of History: Studies in the Literary Consciousness in America (Brown Thrasher Books)
- The Man of Letters in New England and the South; Essays on the History of the Literary Vocation in America
- Imagining Our Time: Recollections And Reflections on American Writing (Southern Literary Studies)
- The Possibilities of Order: Cleanth Brooks & His Work