- Mind and the American Civil War: A Meditation on Lost Causes (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)
- Selected Stories from the Southern Review, 1965-1985
- The Dispossessed Garden: Pastoral and History in Southern Literature
- 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