| The monstrosity of translation C Jacobs MLN 90 (6), 755-766, 1975 | 197 | 1975 |
| In the language of Walter Benjamin C Jacobs Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 | 151 | 1999 |
| Uncontainable Romanticism: Shelley, Brontë, Kleist C Jacobs (No Title), 1989 | 128 | 1989 |
| Dusting Antigone C Jacobs mln 111 (5), 889-917, 1996 | 111 | 1996 |
| The dissimulating harmony: the image of interpretation in Nietzsche, Rilke, Artaud, and Benjamin C Jacobs | 97 | 1978 |
| On Looking at Shelley's Medusa C Jacobs Yale French Studies, 163-179, 1985 | 55 | 1985 |
| Telling Time: Lévi-Strauss, Ford, Lessing C Jacobs Benjamin, de Man, Wordsworth, Rilke, 1993 | 50 | 1993 |
| Sebald's Vision: Columbia University Press C Jacobs Columbia University Press, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |
| Wuthering Heights: At the Threshold of Interpretation in Revisions of the Anglo-American Tradition: II C Jacobs Boundary 2. A Journal of Postmodern Literature Birghamton, N. Y 7 (3), 49-72, 1979 | 39 | 1979 |
| The Critical Performance of Lessing's Laokoon C Jacobs MLN 102 (3), 483-521, 1987 | 38 | 1987 |
| What Does It Mean to Count? WG Sebald's" The Emigrants" C Jacobs MLN 119 (5), 905-929, 2004 | 30 | 2004 |
| Playing Jane Campion's Piano: Politically C Jacobs MLN 109 (5), 757-785, 1994 | 30 | 1994 |
| Skirting the ethical C Jacobs Stanford University Press, 2007 | 25 | 2007 |
| The Style of Kleist C Jacobs diacritics 9 (4), 47-61, 1979 | 24 | 1979 |
| The (too) good soldier:‘A real story’ C Jacobs Glyph 3, 32-51, 1978 | 24 | 1978 |
| Walter Benjamin: Image of Proust C Jacobs MLN 86 (6), 910-932, 1971 | 24 | 1971 |
| Walter Benjamin: Topographically Speaking C Jacobs Studies in Romanticism, 501-524, 1992 | 22 | 1992 |
| Acts of narrative C Jacobs, H Sussman Stanford University Press, 2003 | 21 | 2003 |
| Allegories of reading Paul de Man C Jacobs Reading de Man Reading, 105-20, 1989 | 19 | 1989 |
| Telling Time C Jacobs Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993 | 15 | 1993 |
