| 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 | 125 | 1989 |
| Dusting Antigone C Jacobs mln 111 (5), 890-917, 1996 | 104 | 1996 |
| The dissimulating harmony: the image of interpretation in Nietzsche, Rilke, Artaud, and Benjamin C Jacobs | 92 | 1978 |
| On Looking at Shelley's Medusa C Jacobs Yale French Studies, 163-179, 1985 | 55 | 1985 |
| Sebald's Vision: Columbia University Press C Jacobs Columbia University Press, 2015 | 44 | 2015 |
| Telling Time: Lévi-Strauss, Ford, Lessing C Jacobs Benjamin, de Man, Wordsworth, Rilke, 1993 | 41 | 1993 |
| The Critical Performance of Lessing's Laokoon C Jacobs MLN 102 (3), 483-521, 1987 | 38 | 1987 |
| 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 | 34 | 1979 |
| Playing Jane Campion's Piano: Politically C Jacobs MLN 109 (5), 757-785, 1994 | 33 | 1994 |
| What does it Mean to Count? WG Sebald's the Emigrants C Jacobs MLN 119 (5), 905-929, 2004 | 28 | 2004 |
| Walter Benjamin: Image of Proust C Jacobs MLN 86 (6), 910-932, 1971 | 28 | 1971 |
| Skirting the ethical C Jacobs Skirting the Ethical, 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| The (too) Good Soldier:'a real story,' C Jacobs Glyph 3, 32-51, 1978 | 26 | 1978 |
| The Style of Kleist C Jacobs Diacritics 9 (4), 47-61, 1979 | 24 | 1979 |
| Acts of narrative C Jacobs, H Sussman Stanford University Press, 2003 | 23 | 2003 |
| Walter Benjamin: Topographically Speaking C Jacobs Studies in Romanticism 31 (4), 501, 1992 | 21 | 1992 |
| Uncontainable Romanticism: Shelley C Jacobs Brontë, Kleist (Baltimore, London: John Hopkins, 1989), p. ix, 1989 | 17 | 1989 |
| Allegories of reading Paul de Man C Jacobs Reading de Man Reading, 105-120, 1989 | 16 | 1989 |
