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Don Richard Cox

Selected Publications

  • Ed., with Maria Bachman, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Broadview Press, 2006)
  • ed., with Maria Bachman, Blind Love, by Wilkie Collins (Broadview Press, 2004)
  • ed. with Maria Bachman, Reality’s Dark Light: Sensational Wilkie Collins (University of Tennessee Press, 2003)
  • Charles Dicken’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood: An Annotated Bibliography (AMS Press, 1998)
  • Arthur Conan Doyle (Frederick Ungar, 1985)
  • with Elizabeth Giddens, Crafting Prose (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991)
  • ed. Sexuality and Victorian Literature (University of Tennessee Press, 1984); Emblems of Reality: Experience in Language (Glencoe Press, 1973)
  • ed., with W.S. Anderson, The Technical Reader: Readings in Technical, Business and Scientific Communication (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980; 2nd ed., 1984).

Representative Articles

  • with Maria Bachman, “Wilkie Collin’s Villainous Miss Gwilt, Criminality, and the Unspeakable Truth,” Dickens Studies Annual, 32 (2002): 319-37
  • "'Mr Grewgious Experiences a New Sensation': How Edwin Drood Was Illustrated," The Dickensian, 93 (Spring 1997), 13-26
  • "The Nonesuch Dickens," The University of Tennessee Library Development Review/ 1995-96 (November 1996), 9-10
  • "'Can't You See a Hint?': The Mysterious 'Thirteenth Illustration' to Edwin Drood," The Dickensian, 92 (Spring 1996), 3-17
  • "The Every Saturday Page Proofs for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, " The Dickensian, 90 (Summer 1994), 95-10
  • "The Artistic Failure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Baker Street Miscellanea, no. 75 (Spring 1994), 21-27
  • "'The One Fixed Point in a Changing Age': Faith, Disillusion, and Certitude in the World of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle," Canadian Holmes, 16 (Summer 1993), 12-18
  • "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," and "The Hound of the Baskervilles." Reference Guide to English Literature Vol. III, 1636-7, 1729-30, ed. Daniel Kirkpatrick (St. James Press, 1991)
  • "Jack the Ripper," and "Mystery and Detective Fiction," Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, ed. Sally Mitchell (Garland Publishing Inc., 1989), 226-27, 408, 526-27
  • "A Darwinian Cosmos: The Art of Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles," Baker Street Miscellanea, No. 53 (Spring 1988), 14-20
  • "Arthur Conan Doyle,"
  • "Computers and Academic 'Survival': Some Questions," Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 13 (1986), 178-83
  • "Shaw on Edwin Drood: Some Unpublished Letters," The Dickensian, 84 (Spring 1988), 27-29
  • "Fear and Loathing in the Classroom: Teaching Technical Writing for the First Time," in Training the New Teacher of College Composition, ed. Charles W. Bridges (NCTE, 1986), 58-68
  • “A World He Never Made: The Decline of James T. Farrell,” CLA Journal, 23 (1979): 32-48
  • "The Birds of Bleak House," Dickens Studies Newsletter, 11 (1980), 6-11
  • “Barbie and Her Playmates,” Journal of Popular Culture, 11 (1977): 303-307; “The Vision of Robinson’s Merlin,” Colby Library Quarterly, 10 (1974): 495-504
  • “Forum: Scrooge’s Conversion,” PMLA, 90 (1975): 922-23.

Don Richard Cox

Contact Information

Don Richard Cox
Professor and Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences
210-A Alumni Memorial Building
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996

Office: (865) 974-6514
Fax: (865) 974-4352
E-mail: dcox@utk.edu

Education

B.A., M.A., Wichita State University
Ph.D., University of Missouri

Research

The Victorian Period, Expository Writing