Abbott, H. Porter, review of Susanna Egan, Patterns of Experience in Autobiography, in Modern Language Review, 81.2 (1986), pp. 421–23, doi:10.2307/3729709

Abbott, H. Porter, review of David Novarr, The Lines of Life: Theories of Biography, 1880-1970, in Modern Language Review, 84.3 (1989), pp. 696–98, doi:10.2307/3732445

Abbott, H. Porter, review of Philip Dodd, Modern Selves: Essays on Modern British and American Autobiography, in Literature in the Modern Media: Radio, Film, and Television Special Number, ed. by Andrew Gurr (= Yearbook of English Studies, 20.1 (1990)), pp. 353–55, doi:10.2307/3507634

Abbott, H. Porter, review of James Phelan, Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative, in Modern Language Review, 87.1 (1992), pp. 161–64, doi:10.2307/3732336

Abbott, H. Porter, review of Concetta Cavallini, 'Cette belle besogne': Étude sur le journal de voyage de Montaigne, in Modern Language Review, 102.2 (2007), p. 510, doi:10.2307/20467331

Abbott, H. Porter, review of Debarati Sanyal, The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Forms, in Modern Language Review, 103.2 (2008), pp. 547–48, doi:10.2307/20467839

Abbott, H. Porter, review of Gordon Millan, Les 'Mardis' de Stéphane Mallarmé: mythes et réalités, in Modern Language Review, 105.1 (2010), pp. 250–51, doi:10.2307/25655184

Abbott, H. Porter, review of Rachael Langford, Textual Intersections: Literature, History and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe, in Modern Language Review, 106.1 (2011), pp. 207–09, doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.106.1.0207

Abbott, H. Porter, review of Randolph Paul Runyon, Intratextual Baudelaire: The Sequential Fabric of the ‘Fleurs du mal’ and ‘Spleen de Paris’, in Modern Language Review, 107.1 (2012), pp. 288–89, doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.107.1.0288