Books
- (1958) Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels
- (1963) The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers
- (1965) Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers
- (1968) The Form of Victorian Fiction: Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy
- (1970) Thomas Hardy, Distance and Desire
- (1971) Charles Dickens and George Cruikshank
- (1982) Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels
- (1985) The Linguistic Moment: from Wordsworth to Stevens
- (1985) The Lesson of Paul de Man
- (1987) The Ethics of Reading: Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin
- (1990) Versions of Pygmalion
- (1990) Victorian Subjects
- (1990) Tropes, Parables, Performatives: Essays on Twentieth Century Literature
- (1991) Theory Now and Then
- (1991) Hawthorne & History: Defacing It
- (1992) Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines
- (1992) Illustration
- (1995) Topographies
- (1998) Reading Narrative
- (1999) Black Holes
- (2001) Others
- (2001) Speech Acts in Literature
- (2002) On Literature
- (2005) The J. Hillis Miller Reader
- (2005) Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James
- (2009) For Derrida
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