He is the author and editor of numerous books including:
- Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter 1972
- Tennyson's Major Poems 1975
- Novels of Anthony Trollope 1977
- Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture 1992
- Annoying the Victorians 1994
- My Secret Life 1996
- Erotic Innocence: The culture of child molesting 1998