- Mind and the American Civil War: A Meditation on Lost Causes (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)
- The Dispossessed Garden: Pastoral and History in Southern Literature
- The Man of Letters in New England and the South; Essays on the History of the Literary Vocation in America
- The Fable of the Southern Writer
- Imagining Our Time: Recollections And Reflections on American Writing (Southern Literary Studies)