Dr Jessica Cox
Divisional Lead/Reader in English Literature
Gaskell Building 126
- Email: jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266402
- English
- English and Creative Writing
- Arts and Humanities
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Cox, J. (2023) 'Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain'. Cheltenham: The History Press. ISSN 10: 1-80399-404-5 ISSN 13: 978-0-7509-9857-4
Cox, J. (2022) 'Wagner, Tamara S. The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 320 pp.'. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 18 (1). pp. 1 - 4.Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2021) '“I’LL TRY VIOLENCE”: PATTERNS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE IN CHARLOTTE BRONTË’S JANE EYRE (1847)'. Women's Writing, 29 (3). pp. 1 - 23. ISSN: 0969-9082 Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2021) 'Midwifery', in Scholl, L. (ed.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1 - 4. ISBN 13: 9783030027216.
Cox, J. (2020) 'The ‘most sacred of duties’: Maternal Ideals and Discourses of Authority in Victorian Breastfeeding Advice'. Journal of Victorian Culture, 25 (2). pp. 223 - 239. ISSN: 1355-5502 Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2019) 'Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction'. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 10: 3030292894 ISSN 13: 978-3-030-29289-8
Cox, J. (2017) '"The Insane Creole": The Afterlife of Bertha Mason', in Regis, A. and Wynne, D. (eds.) Charlotte Bronte: Legacies and Afterlives. Manchester : Manchester University Press. pp. 221 - 240. ISBN 13: 978-1-7849-9246-0.
Cox, J. (2017) 'Canonisation, Colonisation, and the Rise of Neo-Victorianism'. English, 66 (253). pp. 101 - 123. ISSN: 0013-8215 Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2016) ''Gothic and Victorian Supernatural Tales'', in Head, D. (ed.) The Cambridge History of the English Short Story. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. pp. 49 - 66.
Cox, J. (2016) 'Victorian Sensation Fiction: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism'. Palgrave Macmillan.
Cox, J. (2014) 'Narratives of Sexual Trauma in Contemporary Adaptations of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White', in Böhm, N. and Gruss, S. (eds.) Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture Immersions and Revisitations. Abingdon : Routledge. pp. 137 - 150. ISBN 10: 0415708303. ISBN 13: 978-0415708302. Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2013) '‘“A strange postmodern moment”: Revisiting Pride and Prejudice in ITV’s Lost in Austen (2008)’'. Critical Studies in Television, 8 (1). pp. 36 - 51. ISSN: 1749-6020
Cox, J. (2013) 'The Ghost of Myself": Women, art, and (neo-) sensational representation in Joanne Harris's Sleep, Pale Sister'. Contemporary Women's Writing, 7 (3). pp. 346 - 360. ISSN: 1754-1476
Cox, J. (2011) 'Brief lives: Charlotte Brontë'. London: Hesperus Press Ltd. ISSN 10: 1843919206 ISSN 13: 978-1843919209
Cox, J. (2010) 'Gender, conflict, continuity: Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) and Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins (1893)'. Brontë Studies, 35 (1). pp. 30 - 39. ISSN: 1474-8932 Open Access Link
Bowler, AL. and Cox, J. (2010) 'Introduction to adapting the nineteenth century: Revisiting, revising and rewriting the past'. Neo-Victorian Studies, 2 (2). pp. 1 - 17. ISSN: 1757-9481 Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2008) 'Sensational realism? Jane Eyre and the problem of genre'. Cycnos, 25. pp. 15 - 32. ISSN: 0992-1893 Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2008) '"A touch of in'nard fever": illness and moral decline in Elster's Folly'. Women’s Writing, 15 (2). pp. 232 - 243. ISSN: 0969-9082 Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2007) 'Reading faces: physiognomy and the depiction of the heroine in the fiction of Wilkie Collins', in Mangham, A. (ed.) Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 107 - 121. ISBN 10: 1-4438-0510-6. ISBN 13: 978-1-4438-0510-0.
Cox, J. (2005) 'Gendered visions: the figure of the prostitute in The New Magdalane (1873) and The Fallen Leaves (1879)'. Wilkie Collins’ Society Journal, 8. pp. 3 - 18. ISSN: 0897-2982
Cox, J. (2005) 'From page to screen: transforming M.E. Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret'. Journal of Gender Studies, 14 (1). pp. 23 - 31. ISSN: 0958-9236
Cox, J. (2004) 'Representations of illegitimacy in Wilkie Collins's early novels'. Philological Quarterly, 83. pp. 147 - 169. ISSN: 0031-7977