Smethurst, Paul, review of Robert M. Polhemus, Roger B. Henkle, Critical Reconstructions: The Relationship of Fiction and Life, in Modern Language Review, 90.4 (1995), pp. 987–88, doi:10.2307/3733083

Smethurst, Paul, review of David Fishelov, Metaphors of Genre: The Role of Analogies in Genre Theory, in Strategies of Reading: Dickens and After, ed. by Andrew Gurr (= Yearbook of English Studies, 26.1 (1996)), pp. 341–42, doi:10.2307/3508726

Smethurst, Paul, review of Malcolm Bull, Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World, in Modern Language Review, 92.4 (1997), pp. 929–30, doi:10.2307/3734216

Smethurst, Paul, review of Murray Krieger, The Institution of Theory, in Modern Language Review, 92.4 (1997), pp. 932–33, doi:10.2307/3734218

Smethurst, Paul, review of Richard Walsh, Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction, in Modern Language Review, 93.3 (1998), pp. 814–15, doi:10.2307/3736539

Smethurst, Paul, review of Sanford Budick, Wolfgang Iser, The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space between, in The Text as Evidence: Revising Editorial Principles, ed. by Andrew Gurr (= Yearbook of English Studies, 29.1 (1999)), pp. 266–67, doi:10.2307/3508950

Smethurst, Paul, review of Peggy Kamuf, The Division of Literature: Or, the University in Deconstruction, in Modern Language Review, 94.3 (1999), pp. 808–09, doi:10.2307/3737027

Smethurst, Paul, review of Marshall Brown, Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural Expressions, in Modern Language Review, 94.3 (1999), pp. 809–10, doi:10.2307/3737028

Smethurst, Paul, review of Arabella Lyon, Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored, in Modern Language Review, 96.2 (2001), pp. 454–55, doi:10.2307/3737354

Smethurst, Paul, review of Mary Poovey, Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain, in Modern Language Review, 104.4 (2009), pp. 1115–17, doi:10.2307/25655062

Smethurst, Paul, review of Geoffrey Hill, Kenneth Haynes, Collected Critical Writings, in Modern Language Review, 105.2 (2010), pp. 543–44, doi:10.2307/25698736