| A glossary of literary terms MH Abrams, G Harpham Cengage Learning, 2014 | 11199 | 2014 |
| On the Grotesque, strategies of contradiction in art and literature GG Harpham Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 43 (4), 1985 | 859 | 1985 |
| The ascetic imperative in culture and criticism GG Harpham University of Chicago Press, 1992 | 518 | 1992 |
| Getting It Right: Language, Literature, and Ethics GG Harpham | 199 | 1992 |
| Shadows of Ethics: criticism and the just society GG Harpham Duke University Press, 1999 | 189 | 1999 |
| The grotesque: first principles G Harpham The journal of aesthetics and art criticism 34 (4), 461-468, 1976 | 157 | 1976 |
| Handbook of literary terms MH Abrams, GG Harpham Cengage learning, 2009 | 141 | 2009 |
| One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad GG Harpham University of Chicago Press, 1996 | 124 | 1996 |
| The humanities and the dream of America GG Harpham The Humanities and the Dream of America, 2011 | 122 | 2011 |
| Roots, races, and the return to philology GG Harpham Representations 106 (1), 34-62, 2009 | 103 | 2009 |
| 1. Beneath and Beyond the “Crisis in the Humanities” GG Harpham The Humanities and the Dream of America, 21-42, 2011 | 102 | 2011 |
| Language alone: The critical fetish of modernity GG Harpham Routledge, 2013 | 85 | 2013 |
| EL Doctorow and the Technology of Narrative GG Harpham PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 100 (1), 81-95, 1985 | 77 | 1985 |
| So... what is enlightenment? An inquisition into modernity GG Harpham Critical Inquiry 20 (3), 524-556, 1994 | 70 | 1994 |
| Conversion and the Language of Autobiography GG Harpham Studies in autobiography, 42-50, 1988 | 66 | 1988 |
| Doing the impossible: Slavoj Žižek and the end of knowledge G Galt Harpham Critical Inquiry 29 (3), 453-485, 2003 | 46 | 2003 |
| Foucault and the new historicism GG Harpham American Literary History 3 (2), 360-375, 1991 | 39 | 1991 |
| The Hunger of Martha Nussbaum GG Harpham Representations 77 (1), 52-81, 2002 | 35 | 2002 |
| Elaine Scarry and the dream of pain GG Harpham Salmagundi, 202-234, 2001 | 34 | 2001 |
| Aesthetics and the Fundamentals of Modernity GG Harpham Aesthetics and ideology, 124-49, 1994 | 32 | 1994 |
