Book, Forthcoming

Shopping for God: How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face. to be published Simon & Schuster, September 2007.

Commercial Culture

Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America (Columbia University Press, 1992). Paperback edition published 1993. Second paperback printing, 1994.

Adcult USA: The Triumph of Advertising in America (Columbia University Press, 1995). Paperback 1996.

Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism (Columbia University Press 1999). Paperback edition published 2000.

Twenty Ads That Shook The World: The Century's Most Ground-Breaking Advertising and How It Changed Us All. (Random House/Crown) Paperback edition 2001.

Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury. (Columbia University Press, 2002). Paperback published Spring 2003 by Simon & Schuster.

Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld. (Simon & Schuster, 2005). Paperback edition fall, 2005.

Romanticism

The Living Dead: The Vampire in Romantic Literature (Duke University Press, 1980) Paperback edition published 1987. Second paperback edition, 1996.

Romantic Horizons: Aspects of the Sublime in English Poetry and Painting 1770-1850 (University of Missouri Press, 1983).

Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror (Oxford University Press, 1985). Paperback edition published 1986. Second paperback reprinting, 1991. Third paperback reprinting, 1995.

Books I Don't Know Why I Wrote

Where Men Hide. (Photos by Ken Ross.) New York: Columbia University Press, late fall 2005 or early winter 2006.

Forbidden Partners: The Incest Taboo in Modern Culture (Columbia University Press, 1986). Paperback edition published 1989.

Preposterous Violence: Fables of Aggression in Modern Culture (Oxford University Press, 1989).

For Shame: The Loss of Common Decency in American Culture (St. Martin's Press: A Thomas Dunne Book, 1997). Paperback edition fall, 1998.