 Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and HumanitiesAssociate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs Office: Education 102 Telephone: E-mail: Jeffrey.Cox@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Romanticism; cultural theory and cultural studies
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1981
B.A., Wesleyan University, 1975
Publications
Books
Ed., Keats's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition). Norton, 2008
Co-ed. with Greg Kucich, Collected Works of Leigh Hunt, Vols. 1 and 2: Periodical Essays 1805-1821. Pickering & Chatto, 2003
Co-ed. with Michael Gamer, The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama. Broadview Press, 2003
Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Shelley, Keats, Hunt, and Their Circle. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998
Ed. and intro., Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation in the British Romantic Period. Volume 5: The Drama. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999. Headnote and notes to Starke's Sword of Peace reprinted in a special issue of Romanticism on the Net, "British Women Playwrights around 1800," ed. Thomas Crochunis and Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Co-ed. with Larry Reynolds, New Historical Literary Study. Princeton Univ. Press, 1993
Ed. and intro., Seven Gothic Dramas 1789-1825. Ohio Univ. Press, 1992; paperback edition, 1993
In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France. Ohio Univ. Press, 1987
Journal issues edited
With Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, “Romantic Cosmopolitanism.” Special issue of European Romantic Review 16 (April 2005)
Essays
“The Living Pantheon of Poets in 1820.” Cambridge Companion to Romantic Poetry. Ed. James Chandler and Maureen Mclean. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming
“Cockney Cosmopolitanism.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, forthcoming
“Editing Romantic Drama.” In special issue of La questione Romantica. Ed. Lilla Maria Crisafulli, forthcoming
“British Romantic Drama in a European Context.” British and European Romanticisms. Studien zur Englischen Romantik 4. Ed. Christoph Bode and Sebastian Domsch. Wissenchaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007, 115-30
“The Death of Tragedy; or, The Birth of the Melodrdama.” The Performing Society—Nineteenth-Century Theater. Ed. Peter Holland and Tracy Davis. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007, 161-181
“Manfred and the Melodrama.” Poetic and Dramatic Forms in British Romanticism. Ed. Franca Dellarosa. Laterza and Figli, 2006, 17-38
“Shelley, The Dramatist." Cambridge Companion to Percy Shelley. Ed. Timothy Morton. Cambridge Univ Press, 2006,144-75
“Cowley’s Bold Stroke for Comedy.” European Romantic Review 17 (2006): 361-75
"Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors: Remaking British Tragedy." Blackwell's Companion to Tragedy, ed. Rebecca Bushnell. Blackwell, 2005, 411-34
With Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, “Are Those Who Are ‘Strangers Nowhere in the World’ At Home Anywhere: Thinking about Romantic Cosmopolitanism.” Special issue co-ed. by Jeffrey N. Cox and Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, European Romantic Review 16 (April 2005): 129-40
“Re-viewing Romantic Drama.” Literature Compass 1 (2004) RO 096: 1-24
“Communal Romanticism.” European Romantic Review 15 (2004): 329-34
“Reviewing Baillie's Count Basil." European Romantic Review 15 (2004): 359-61
“Leigh Hunt’s Foliage: A Cockney Manifesto.” Leigh Hunt: Life, Poetics, Politics. Ed. Nicholas Roe. Routledge, 2003, 58-77
"Gothic Theater: From Adaptations to 'Originals.'" Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Ed. Jerrold E. Hogle. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002, 125-44
"Lamia, Isabaella and 'The Eve of St. Agnes." Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan Wolfson. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001, 53-68
"Baillie, Siddons, Larpent: Gender, Power, and Politics in the Theater of Romanticism." Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840. Ed. Catherine Burroughs. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000, 23-47
"Spots of Time: The Structure of the Dramatic Evening in the Theater of Romanticism." Texas Studies in Language and Literature 41 (1999): 403-25
"Leigh Hunt's Cockney School: The Laker's 'Other.'" Romanticism on the Net 14 (May 1999)
"Keats in the Cockney School." Romanticism 2 (1996): 27-39
"Staging Hope: Genre, Myth, and Ideology in the Dramas of the Hunt Circle." Texas Studies in Language and Literature 38 (1996): 245-64
"The Ideological Tack of Nautical Melodrama." Melodrama: The Cultural Emergence of a Genre. Ed. Michael Hays and Anastasia Nikolopoulou. St. Martin's Press, 1996, 167-89
"Keats, Shelley, and the Wealth of the Imagination." Studies in Romanticism (Fall,1995): 365-400
"Romantic Redefinitions of the Tragic." Romantic Drama, a volume in A Comparative History of Literature in European Languages. Ed. Gerald Gillespie. John Benjamins, 1994, 153-65
With Larry J. Reynolds, "The Historicist Enterprise." New Historical Literary Study: Essays on Reproducing Texts, Representing History. Ed. Jeffrey N. Cox and Larry J. Reynolds. Princeton Univ. Press, 1993, 3-38
"Genre and Ideology in the Anti-Revolutionary Drama of the 1790s." ELH 58 (1991): 579-610. Rpt. in British Romantic Drama. Ed. Terence Allan Hoagwood and Daniel P. Watkins. Associated Univ. Presses, 1998, 84-114
"The French Revolution in the English Theater." In History and Myth: Essays on English Romantic Literature. Ed. Stephen C. Behrendt. Wayne State Univ. Press, 1990, 33-52. Rpt. in Romanticism and Revolution: Politics and Rhetoric. Eds. Keith Hanley and Raman Selden. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990, 241-60
"Killing Kotzebue: Nerval's Léo Burckart and the Romantic Ideology of Death." European Romantic Review 1 (Summer 1990): 27-58
"The Parasite and the Puppet: Diderot's Neveu and Kleist's 'Marionettentheater.'" Comparative Literature 38 (Summer 1986): 256-69
"Monodrama, Melodrama, and the Forms of Romantic Tragic Drama." In Within the Dramatic Spectrum: Comparative Drama Conference Papers IX. Ed. Karelisa V. Hartigan. Univ. Press of America, 1986, 20-34
Selected honors and awards
Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 2004-2005
Scholarly and Creative Work Enhancement Grant, Texas A&M University, 1995
Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study, Texas A&M University, 1994-1995
Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award, Texas A&M University, 1990
Huntington-Exxon Research Award, Henry E. Huntington Library, 1986
Current projects
Communal Romanticism: History, Theory, Method (book)
Romantic Border Raids: Radical Poetry in a World at War (book)