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Stephen COX - Ph.D. (UCLA)

Primary Office: GH 182
Primary Phone: (858) 534-4721
Secondary Office: LIT 444
Secondary Phone: Contact Department
Email: sdcox@ucsd.edu
Director: Humanties Program

Professor of English Literature: Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature; Blake; History of Liberal Ideas; The New Testament and Its Literary Influence.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

The New Testament and Literature. Chicago: Open Court, 2006.

"Representing Isabel Paterson." American Literary History 17 (Summer 2005): 244-58.

The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004.

"The Titanic and the Art of Myth." Critical Review 15 (Summer-Fall 2003): 403-34.

The Titanic Story. Chicago: Open Court, 1999.

“The Devil’s Reading List.” Raritan 16 (1996): 97-111.

“The Two Liberalisms.” American Literary History 6 (1994): 453-466.

Ed. The God of the Machine. By Isabel Paterson. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1993.

“Assumptions of Power.” Reason 24 (March 1993): 34-41.

“Theory, Experience and ‘The American Religion.’” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 36 (1993): 363-373.

Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blake’s Thought. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

“Sensibility as Argument.” Sensibility in Transformation: Creative Resistance to Sentiment from the Augustans to the Romantics. Ed. Syndy McMillen Conger. Rutherford, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1990. 63-82.

“Devices of Deconstruction.” Critical Review 3 (1989): 56-76.

“Methods and Limitations.” Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of Method. Ed. Donald Ault et al. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987. 19-40, 331-34.

“Literary Theory: Liberal and Otherwise.” Humane Studies Review 5.1 (1987).

“Adventures of ‘A Little Boy Lost’: Blake and the Process of Interpretation.” Criticism 23 (1981): 301 316.

The Stranger Within Thee”: Concepts of the Self in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980.

EDITORSHIPS:

Senior Editor, Liberty
Editor, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies