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- Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830 - 1914
- The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
- Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930
- Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994