Jeffrey Cox

About

Jeffrey Cox is a Distinguished Professor of English & Humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, earned in 1981, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University, earned in 1975. His areas of specialty include British Literature, Cultural Studies, Romanticism, and Cultural Theory. Cox is involved in teaching and research within the Department of English at the university, contributing to the fields of literature and cultural studies through his academic work.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Philosophy
• Art
• History
• Linguistics
• Theology
• Environmental ethics
• Literature

Selected publications

• On the Rejection of the Catholic Petition

  Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 12 citations

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• William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic

  2021 · 5 citations

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  William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic provides a truly comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth and the full arc of his career from (1814–1840) revealing that his major poems after Waterloo contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries: Keats, Shelley and Byron. Refuting conventional models of influence, where Wordsworth 'fathers' the younger poets, Cox demonstrates how Wordsworth's later writing evolved in response to 'second generation' romanticism. After explo…

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• On the Spirit of Money-Getting, and on Retrenchment

  2022-01-18 · 1 citations

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  First published in The Examiner, X, 19 January 1817, pp. 33–4. This piece is followed by a discussion of Pitt’s financial policies, particularly the use of the ‘sinking fund’ to pay back the national debt (pp. 34–7); see also The Examiner, X, 26 January 1817, pp. 49–50 as well as fairly regular reports on the state of the country’s finances (for example, 5 January 1817, pp. 6-7). While this piece adopts a more general line of argument in which he voices his concern that the profit motive is tran…

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• Byron and the Trans-Mediterranean "Cult of the South": A Bicentennial Special Issue

  Studies in Romanticism · 2025-09-01

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• Beatrice Unbound: Adaptations of Shelley’s <i>The Cenci</i>

  Essays in Romanticism · 2024-10-09

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  This essay considers three twentieth-century re-imaginings of Shelley’s The Cenci : Artaud’s play Les Cenci , Bernold Goldschmidt’s opera Beatrice Cenci , with a libretto by Martin Esslin, and both the play and opera versions of Beatrice Chancy by George Elliot Clarke with music by James Rolfe. Shelley and his adaptors in thinking through the figure of Beatrice take up what Shelley sees as the struggle of “oppressor to the oppressed.” Shelley writing during the reactionary restoration after the…

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Frequent coauthors

• Greg Kucich

  University of Notre Dame

  65 shared

• Shelton Stromquist

  26 shared

• Gary M. Fink

  25 shared

• Linda Kerberof

  Rockefeller Foundation

  25 shared

• Kevin Boyle

  Northwestern University

  25 shared

• Walter The

  Center for Inquiry

  25 shared

• Jay L. Schauben

  9 shared

• Randall Sato

  University Hospital and Clinics

  9 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of Virginia

  1981

• B.A.

  Wesleyan University

  1975

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