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Fraser, Robert (2012). Night Thoughts: The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Fraser, Robert (2008). Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes: Rewriting the Script. London, UK: Routledge.

Fraser, Robert (2002). The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker. Paperback edition [revised]. London, UK: Pimlico.

Fraser, Robert (2002). Ben Okri: Towards the Invisible City. Writers and their work. Tavistock, UK: Northcote House.

Fraser, Robert (2001). The chameleon poet: a life of George Barker. London, UK: Jonathan Cape.

Fraser, Robert ed. (2011). La Rama Dorada: Magia y religion. Seccion de Obras de Antropologica. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica.

Fraser, Robert and Hammond, Mary eds. (2008). Books Without Borders, Volume 1: The Cross-national Dimension in Print Culture. Houndmills, Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fraser, Robert and Hammond, Mary eds. (2008). Books Without Borders, Volume 2: Perspectives from South Asia. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Fraser, Robert (2024). Diana's Mirror: The Reflective Surface of Frazer's The Golden Bough. In: Budin, Stephanie Lynn and Tullly, Caroline J. eds. A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough: Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 323–338.

Fraser, Robert (2013). Press Books Abroad. In: Eliot, Simon ed. The History of Oxford University Press, Volume 2. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

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Fraser, Robert (2013). Educational books. In: Louis, William Roger ed. The History of the Oxford University Press, Volume 3. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

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Fraser, Robert (2012). Kariba's last stand. In: Cairnie, Julie and Pucherova, Dobrota eds. Moving Spirit: The Legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in the 21st Century. Zurich: Lit Verlag, pp. 39–50.

Fraser, R. (2011). Leonard Bast's library: aspiration, emulation, and the imperial national tradition. In: Spiers, John ed. Nationalisms and the National Canon. The culture of the publisher's series (2). Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 116–133.

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Fraser, Robert (2011). Towards A new world order: literacy, democracy and literature in India and Africa, 1930-1965. In: Chakravorty, Swapan and Gupta, Abhijit eds. New Word Order: Transnational Themes in Book History. Delhi, India: Worldview Publications, pp. 53–64.

Fraser, Robert (2009). The Tiger That Pounced; The African Writers Series (1962-2003) and the Online Reader. In: Satpathy, Sumanyu ed. Southern Postcolonialisms. Delhi, India: Routledge, 30 -49.

Fraser, Robert (2008). School readers in the Empire and the creation of postcolonial taste. In: Fraser, Robert and Hammond, Mary eds. Books Without Borders, Volume 1. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 89–107.

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Fraser, Robert (2008). War and the Colonial Book Trade: The Case of OUP India. In: Hammond, Mary and Fraser, Robert eds. Books Books Without Borders, Volume 2. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 137–150.

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Fraser, Robert and Mary, Hammond (2008). Introduction. From Palmyra to Print: The Book in South Asia. In: Hammond, Mary and Fraser, Robert eds. Books Books Without Borders, Volume 2. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1–11.

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Fraser, Robert (2007). Sir James Frazer and Marian McNeill. In: Brown, Ian; Clancy, Thomas Owen; Manning, Susan and Pittock, Murray G. eds. The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Volume 3. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 69–74.

Fraser, Robert (2007). George Barker's Sonnet of Fishes. In: Hanke, Michael ed. Fourteen English sonnets: critical essays. Studien Zur Anglistischen Literatur-und-Sprach-Wissenschaft (28). Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, pp. 145–157.

Fraser, Robert (2007). Press, partition and famine: Benedict Anderson and the Bengal Emergency of 1905-6. In: McCleery, Alistair and Brabon, Benjamin A. eds. The Influence of Benedict Anderson. Edinburgh, U.K.: Merchiston Publishing, pp. 59–93.

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Fraser, Robert (2005). Mapping the mind: borders, migration and myth. In: Ponzanesi, Sandra and Merolla, Daniela eds. Migrant cartographies: new cultural and literary spaces in post-colonial Europe. Oxford, UK: Lexington Books, pp. 55–66.

Fraser, Robert (2005). Frantz Fanon. In: Poddar, Prem and Johnson, David eds. A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 152–154.

Fraser, Robert (2004). Nineteenth-century adventure and fantasy: James Morier, George Meredith, Lewis Carroll and Robert Louis Stevenson. In: Saunders, Corrine ed. A Companion to Romance: from Classical to Contemporary. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, pp. 389–406.

Fraser, Robert (2004). Marina Warner with Robert Fraser. In: Nasta, Susheila ed. Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 365–376.

Fraser, Robert (2004). George Granville Barker (1913-1991). In: Harrison, Brian ed. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 373–374.

Fraser, Robert (2003). New York. In: Speake, Jennifer ed. Literature of Travel and Exploration, Volume ii. New York and London: Fitzroy Dearbourn/Routledge, pp. 846–848.

Fraser, Robert (2003). Mungo Park. In: Speake, Jennifer ed. Literature of Travel and Exploration, Volume ii. New York and London: Fitzroy Dearbourn/Routledge, pp. 924–926.

Fraser, Robert (2003). Sahel. In: Speake, Jennifer ed. Literature of Travel and Exploration, Volume iii. New York and London: Fitzroy Dearbourn/Routledge, pp. 1044–1046.

Fraser, Robert (2003). Timbuctoo. In: Speake, Jennifer ed. LIterature of Travel and Exploration, Volume iii. New York and London: Fitzroy Dearbourn/Routledge, pp. 1181–1183.

Fraser, Robert (2003). The Lamp of Truth: Proust and George Eliot. In: Bloom, Harold ed. Marcel Proust. Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia, USA: Chelsea House Publishers, pp. 37–62.

Fraser, Robert (2002). Charles Kingsley (1819-1875). In: Clark, Robert and Todd, Janet eds. The Literay Encycopaedia and Dictionary. London: The Literary Dictionary.

Fraser, Robert (2002). Sir James Frazer (1854-1941). In: Clark, Robert and Todd, Janet eds. The Literary Encyclopaedia and Dictionary. London, UK: The LIterary Dictionary.

Fraser, Robert (2002). George Barker (1913-1991). In: Clark, Robert and Todd, Janet eds. The Literay Encyclopaedia and Dictionary. London: The Literary Dictionary.

Fraser, Robert (2002). Ben Okri (1959-). In: Clark, Robert and Todd, Janet eds. The Literary Encyclopaedia and Dictionary. London: The Literary Dictionary.

Fraser, Robert (2012). Surrealists in the Storm: David Gascoyne, Spain and Mass Observation. Times Literary Supplement(5679) 14 -15.

Fraser, Robert (2011). Riddling soul: John Donne, Theatrical Performer of His Various Selves and Maker of an Oddly Modern Music. Times Literary Supplement(5653) pp. 3–4.

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Fraser, Robert (2011). Race and religion in the Victorian age: Charles Kingsley, Governor Eyre and the Morant Bay Rising. The Victorian Web

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Fraser, Robert (2010). Far removed. Times Literary Supplement(5614) p. 29.

Fraser, Robert (2010). Fiction and the other reader: the reception of imperial adventure romance in Africa. Angles on the English-Speaking World, 10, 99 -107.

Fraser, Robert (2010). Bugger the skylarks: Lawrence and Mansfield at war: a battle in ten scenes. Katherine Mansfield Studies, 2(1) pp. 100–163.

Fraser, Robert (2009). Mere Idle Calumnies: How Sir James Frazer's anthopological open-mindedness was misappropriated to support a Blood Libel - and how he responded. Times Literary Supplement pp. 13–15.

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Fraser, Robert (2007). Letters of J.G.Frazer. The Classical Review, 57 (New Se(1) pp. 243–245.

Fraser, Robert (2005). War and the colonial book trade: the case of OUP India. Script and Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 29 pp. 93–104.

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Fraser, Robert (2004). "Have fair fallen": Gerard Manley Hopkins and Henry Purcell. The London Magazine(April-May) pp. 58–66.

Fraser, Robert (2004). Proust's Cup of Tea: Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture. Victorian Studies, 46(2 [Winter]) pp. 370–372.

Fraser, Robert (2004). Write disobediently. The London Magazine(August-Sep) pp. 116–120.

Fraser, Robert (2003). Songs of a Tadpole. Times Literary Supplement p. 20.

Fraser, Robert (2003). "Whatever is, is right": Handel's penultimate oratorio and the pity of war. Times Literary Supplement(5207) pp. 13–14.

Fraser, Robert (2003). Mapping the Mind: Borders, Migration and Myth. Wasafiri(39) pp. 47–54.

Fraser, Robert (2002). "Is there a Gibbon in the house?": Migration, Postcoloniality and the Fall and Rise of Europe. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2(2) pp. 102–114.

Fraser, Robert (2002). Hume, Sir James Frazer, Irony and Belief. The Edinburgh Review, 110(1) pp. 48–55.

Fraser, Robert (2001). "Not that fair field of Enna": Milton, Ruskin and Protestant Longing. The Long Poem Newsletter(10) pp. 3–4.

Fraser, Robert (2001). Lonely Londoners 1890's style: Joseph Casely-Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound. Wasafiri, 34 52 -55.

Fraser, Robert (2001). Postcolonial Cities: Michael Ondaatje's Toronto and Yvonne Vera's Bulawayo. Studies in Canadian Literature/ Etudes en litterature canadienne, 26(2) pp. 40–48.

Fraser, Robert (1996). The loneliness of the long-distance cyclist: cyclic form in Frazer and Proust. Yearbook of English Studies, 26 pp. 163–172.

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Nasta, Susheila and Fraser, Robert (2007). Special Issue of Wasafiri: The Book in the World. Routledge, Abingdon.