Books

• Artistry in Native American Myths. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. ISBN 080322737X
• British Romantic Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. ISBN 0520054849
• Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. ISBN 0231100280
• Ishi in Three Centuries, with Clifton Kroeber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. ISBN 0803227574
• Native American Storytelling: A Reader of Myths and Legends.Ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
• Retelling/Rereading: the Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992 ISBN 0813517656
• Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. ISBN 0300042418
• Romantic Landscape Vision: Constable and Wordsworth. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. ISBN 0299067106
• Romantic Narrative Art. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1960. OCLC: 305135
• Styles in Fictional Structure: The Art of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. ISBN 0691061912
• Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations, ed., 1981. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Selected essays

• "The Evolution of Literary Study", 1883-1983 PMLA, Vol. 99, No. 3, Centennial Issue (May, 1984), pp. 326-339