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Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media

published by Oxford University Press Published in paperback by Vintage, 2004

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Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds : Ways of Telling the Self

published by Oxford University Press Published in paperback by Vintage, 2004

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Signs & Wonders

Essays on Literature and Culture Chatto & Windus, 2003 Vintage Paperback, October 2004

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No Go the Bogeyman

On Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock ( London, 1998) Vintage (paperback) UK Chatto & Windus (hardback) UK. Re-published as Monsters of Our Own Making - The Peculiar pleasure of Fear, by The University of Kentucky Press (paperback, 2007)

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The Inner Eye

Art Beyond the Visible. Catalogue of exhibition, Manchester, Brighton, Swansea, Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, l996-97) Vintage (paperback) UK

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From the Beast to the Blonde

On Fairy Tales and their Tellers (London, l994) Vintage (paperback) UK Chatto & Windus (hardback) UK; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (hardback & paperback) US

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Managing Monsters

Six Myths of Our Time. The l994 Reith Lectures (London, l994) (US title: Six Myths of Our Time, New York, l995) Vintage (paperback) UK, US

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L’Atalante

British Film Institute Film Classic ( London, 1994)

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Into the Dangerous World

Some reflections on childhood and its costs. Counterblast 5 (London, l988)

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Monuments & Maidens

The allegory of the female form, (London, l985) Vintage (paperback) UK; University of California Press (paperback) reprinted,US, 2001

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Joan of Arc

The image of female heroism (London, l981) Vintage (paperback) UK; University of California Press (paperback) US

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Alone of All Her Sex

The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (London, l976) Vintage (paperback) UK, US

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The Dragon Empress

The life and Times of Tz’u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, l835-1980 (London, l972)

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