Books

Global Cities/Local Sites (co-edited), electronic book (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, May 2009)

New York Sights: Visualizing Old and New New York (Oxford: Berg, 2005)

City Sites: Multi-media Essays on New York and Chicago, 1870s-1930s (co-editor), electronic book (University of Birmingham Press, 2000), http://www.city-sites.org.uk

Critical Theory: A Reader (editor) (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester, 1995)

The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story: Language, Form and Ideology (London: Routledge, 1993)

Twentieth-Century America: The Intellectual and Cultural Context (London: Longman, 1991)

Literary Theory at Work: Three Texts (editor) (London: Batsford, 1987)

Selected Articles and Essays

'Art as Diplomacy', Journal of American Studies, 42, 1, 2008, 141-47.

'"Moving Inward as well as North": The Historical Imagination in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Timebends', Foreign Literature Studies, 4, August 2005, 8-15.

'Picturing Change: At Home with the Leisure Class in New York City, 1870s to 1910s,' Modernist Cultures, 1, 1, 2005.

'"A Sense, through the Eyes, of Embracing Possession": Bird’s Eye Views of New York City, 1880s-1930s' in Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker (eds.), Geographies of Modernism: Literatures, Cultures, Spaces (London: Routledge, 2005), 112-25.

'The Visual Arts' in Stephen J Whitfield (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century America (Boston: Blackwell, 2005), 493-509.

'Painting the El: Visual Representations of the New York Elevated Railroad, 1890s-1930s,' in Ulla Haselstain, Berndt Ostendorf and Peter Schneck (eds.), Iconographies of Power: The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation, Universitasverlag, WINTER, Heidelberg, 87-107.

'"Waiting, Waiting": The Hotel Lobby in the Modern City,' in Neil Leach (ed.), The Hieroglyphics of Space, London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 139-151.

'"Running Away from the Darkness": Caleb Carr’s Historical Detective Fiction,' in R. Browne (ed.), Detectives and Historians (Bowling Green: Popular Press) (2000)

'"Accident and then Exigency": Visuality and the New York El,' Hybridity: Journal of Cultures, Texts and Identities, 1, 1 (2000), 105-25.

'The Rhetoric of Space: Jacob Riis and the Lower East Side' in Maria Balshaw, Liam Kennedy, Anna Notaro, Douglas Tallack (eds.), City Sites: Multi-media Essays on New York and Chicago (co-editor), electronic book (University of Birmingham Press, 2000, np). Winner of Arthur Miller Prize, 2000.

'City Sights: Mapping and Representing New York City,' in Maria Balshaw and Liam Kennedy (eds), Urban Space and Representation, London and Sterling, Va: Pluto, 2000, pp. 25-38.

'New York, New York,' Renaissance and Modern Studies, 40 (1997), pp.42-58.

'American Scenes', Journal of American Studies, 29, 3 (1995), pp. 453-59.

'Edward Hopper, Modernist: The Spaces of Everyday Painting' in American Images (Copenhagen: USIS, 1995), pp. 107-27.

'Architecture and Art', in R Maidment (ed.), The United States in the Twentieth Century: Culture (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994), pp. 258-293 + plate section

'Siegfried Giedion, Modernism and American Material Culture', Journal of American Studies, 28, 2 (August 1994). Winner of Arthur Miller Prize, 1994.

'Transcendentalism and Pragmatism,' in M Gidley (ed.), Modern American (London: Longman, 1993), pp. 68-93.

'Culture, Politics and Society in Mid-Century America', in CM Joachimides and N Rosenthal (eds.), American Art in the Twentieth Century: Painting and Sculpture, 1913-1993 (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1993), pp. 29-37. Translated for the catalogue which accompanied the German exhibition (May, 1993).