Jonathan A Cook

Biographic Data

ID3625834
NAMEJonathan A Cook
GIVEN NAMESJonathan A
FAMILY NAMECook
SIGNATURECOOK J A
AFFILIATIONS1 Middleburg Academy
ORCID0000-0001-6067-0960
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne’s Romances

    Jonathan A CookARTICLEAmerican imago2022

    Reviewed by: Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne’s Romances: Narratives of Unconscious Crisis and Transformation by David B. Diamond Jonathan A. Cook (bio) David B. Diamond, Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne’s Romances: Narratives of Unconscious Crisis and Transformation Although the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for the acuity of its psychological insights, surprisingly few critical studies have addressed this topic beyond explorin…

  • Inscrutable Malice

    Jonathan A CookBOOKInscrutable Malice2021

    This book illuminates Herman Melville's abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, the book provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville's creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the work. The book identifies two ongoing concerns in th…

  • Poe and the Apocalyptic Sublime

    Jonathan A Cook, Jonathan CookARTICLEReligion and the Arts2019References: 1

    This essay examines “The Masque of the Read Death,” one of Poe’s most allusive tales, as a striking example of the aesthetics of the apocalyptic sublime. Combining several key ideas from Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful with numerous motifs from biblical apocalyptic symbolism, Poe’s “Masque” was specifically designed to create an effect of sublime terror in the reader. Basing his image of ma…

  • The Most Satisfactory Villain That Ever Was”

    Jonathan A Cook, Jonathan CookARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2015

    In The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne performed a multilevel act of literary revenge against Charles W. Upham, the politician and former minister responsible for his dismissal from the Salem Custom House, by caricaturing him in the person of Judge Pyncheon in a portrait rich with biographical and historical allusions

  • Inscrutable Malice

    Jonathan A Cook, Jonathan CookBOOKInscrutable Malice2012

  • Vulnerable Places, Vulnerable People

    Jonathan A Cook, Owen Cylke et al.BOOKVulnerable Places, Vulnerable…2010

    1. Trade liberalization, rural poverty and the environment / Jonathan A. Cook ... [et al.] -- 2. Trade liberalization, rural poverty and the environment : a case study of the forest and salmon sectors in Chile / Raúl O'Ryan, with Mario Niklitschek ... [et al.] -- 3. The impacts of trade liberalization in Pingbian, China / He Daming and Liu Jiang, with Bobby Cochran -- 4. Shrimp exports, environment and human well-being in the Sunderbans, West Ben…

  • Disappearing Palestine

    Jonathan A Cook, Jonathan CookBOOKDisappearing Palestine2008

    This book claims that Palestine is fast disappearing and fulfilling the objectives of Israel’s founding fathers. Over many decades, Israel has developed and refined policies to disperse, imprison and impoverish the Palestinian people, in a relentless effort to destroy them as a nation. It has industrialized Palestinian despair through ever more sophisticated systems of curfews, checkpoints, walls, permits and land grabs. Cook analyzes how Israel …

  • Melville's Mosses Review and the Proclamation of Hawthorne as America's Literary Messiah

    Open AccessJonathan A Cook, Jonathan CookARTICLELeviathan2008

  • Ahab and Job

    Open AccessJonathan A Cook, Jonathan CookARTICLELeviathan2008

  • "The Historical and Literary Sources of Redburn's "Mysterious Night in London

    Open AccessJonathan A Cook, Jonathan CookARTICLELeviathan2004

  • Moby-Dick, Myth, and Classical Moralism

    Open AccessJonathan A Cook, Jonathan CookARTICLELeviathan2003

  • From "Myth" to "Mystery"

    Open AccessJonathan A Cook, Jonathan CookARTICLELeviathan1999

  • The downsizing of the American mind

    Open AccessJonathan A Cook, Jonathan CookARTICLEAcademic Questions1999

  • Satirical Apocalypse

    Sharon L Dean, Jonathan A Cook et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1997

    Preface Abbreviations Introduction Satirical Form: Parodic Masquerade Historical Context: Mirror of Man Allegorical Matrix: Mirror of God Biographical Models: Fathers and Sons Biographical Models: Literary Brethren Interior Fables: Misanthropes and Philanthropists Interpolated Essays: Apologia and Ars Poetica Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index