Catherine Cox

Biographic Data

ID	3784680
NAME	Catherine Cox
GIVEN NAMES	Catherine
FAMILY NAME	Cox
SIGNATURE	COX C
AFFILIATIONS	University College Dublin
ORCID	0000-0002-9865-420X
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	51
TOTAL CITATIONS	5
AUTHOR COUNT	49
EDITOR COUNT	2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1953
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2024
H-INDEX	2

Prison Chaplains and the ‘Modern’ Prison System in Ireland, 1830s–1870s
Catherine CoxARTICLEStudies An Irish Quarterly Review2024
Irish Economic and Social History , 1974–2023: Publication Trends
Open AccessGraham Brownlow, Catherine Cox et al.ARTICLEIrish Economic and Social History2024
This article reviews the publication trends in Irish Economic and Social History over its first 50 years
It Has Made Me Think”: Engaging the Public with the History of Health in the Modern Irish Prison
Open AccessCatherine Cox, Oisín WallARTICLEJournal of Medical Humanities2023
Since the establishment of the modern prison system in the early nineteenth century, prisons and prisoners have been construed as sites of moral, social, and biological contagion. Historic and contemporary studies show that most prisoners experience severe health inequalities, higher rates of addiction and mental health issues, and lower life expectancy than the rest of the population. They also come from deprived social strata. Yet, these aspect…
Unfit for reform or punishment’: Mental disorder and discipline in Liverpool Borough Prison in the late nineteenth century
Open AccessCatherine Cox, Hilary MarlandARTICLESocial History2019
This article examines how Liverpool Borough Prison, opened in 1855 as one of the largest local prisons in England to adopt the separate system, categorized and dealt with mental distress and disorder amongst its prison population in the late nineteenth century. High prison committal rates in Liverpool, alongside high levels of recidivism, especially among female prisoners, led to severe overcrowding and encouraged a harsh disciplinary regime. Exa…
He Must Die or Go Mad in This Place”: Prisoners, Insanity, and the Pentonville Model Prison Experiment, 1842–52
Open AccessCatherine Cox, Hilary MarlandARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2018
The relationship between prisons and mental illness has preoccupied prison administrators, physicians, and reformers from the establishment of the modern prison service in the nineteenth century to the current day. Here we take the case of Pentonville Model Prison, established in 1842 with the aim of reforming convicts through religious exhortation, rigorous discipline and training, and the imposition of separate confinement in its most extreme f…
Broken Minds and Beaten Bodies: Cultures of Harm and the Management of Mental Illness in Mid- to Late Nineteenth-century English and Irish Prisons
Open AccessCatherine Cox, Hilary MarlandARTICLESocial History of Medicine2018References: 1
This article explores the relationship between the prison and mental illness, focusing on the ways in which the system of separate confinement was associated with mental breakdown and how maintaining the integrity of prison discipline mitigated against prisoners obtaining treatment or removal to an asylum. Examples are taken from English and Irish prisons, from the introduction of separate confinement at Pentonville Prison in London in 1842 until…
Adolescence in Modern Irish History
Open AccessCatherine Cox, Susannah RiordanBOOKAdolescence in Modern Irish History2015
This edited collection is the first to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history. It brings together established and emerging scholars to examine the experience of Irish young adults from the
A Burden on the County: Madness, Institutions of Confinement and the Irish Patient in Victorian Lancashire
Open AccessCatherine Cox, Hilary MarlandARTICLESocial History of Medicine2015Cited by: 2References: 4
This article explores the responses of the Poor Law authorities, asylum superintendents and Lunacy Commissioners to the huge influx of Irish patients into the Lancashire public asylum system, a system facing intense pressure in terms of numbers and costs, in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In particular, it examines the ways in which patients were passed, bartered and exchanged between two sets of institution-workhouses and asylums. In…
Syndemics of syphilis, HCV infection, and methamphetamine use along the east coast of China
Open AccessMeizhen Liao, Dianmin Kang et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014
Methamphetamine is the predominant drug used among the drug users, the prevalence of syphilis and HCV infection are alarmingly high, and unprotected commercial sex was common among this group. The findings highlight the need for effective, multifaceted interventions addressing sexual and drug use-related risky behaviors among this group. Further research is needed to better understand the causal pathway of the syndemics
Discursive Essay: A better known territory? Medical history and Ireland
Catherine CoxARTICLEProceedings of the Royal Irish…2013
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature - Volume 113C, 2013
Emaciated, Exhausted, and Excited: The Bodies and Minds of the Irish in Late Nineteenth-Century Lancashire Asylums
Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social History2012Cited by: 2
Drawing on asylum reception orders, casebooks and annual reports, as well as County Council notebooks recording the settlement of Irish patients, this article examines a deeply traumatic and enduring aspect of the Irish migration experience, the confinement of large numbers of Irish migrants in the Lancashire asylum system between the 1850s and the 1880s. This period saw a massive influx of impoverished Irish into the county, particularly in the …
Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750–1970
Open AccessCatherine Cox, Maria LuddyBOOKCultures of Care in Irish Medical…2010
Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this
Queering the Siren's Call: Signatures of Subjectivity in Dante's Purgatorio and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLEExemplaria2010References: 6
This essay considers the significance of the Siren figure to Dante's Purgatorio and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home with a focus on the figure's relation to tropes of knowledge, specifically self-knowledge as manifested in the reading, writing, and speaking of the self. The Siren's call pertains not only to the classical notion of a woman's vocal allure, answered by those men for whom it signals the possibility of ultimate experience, but also to the a…
Famine and Disease in Ireland
Catherine CoxARTICLESocial History of Medicine2006
As the authors of this fine collection of primary documents assert, the subject of famine and food occupies a central place in Irish historiography and has become a potent symbol in popular memory (I, p. xiii). It has attracted the attention of scholars from disparate disciplines and has been the source of much debate and scholarly controversy. Consequently, many will be interested and grateful for the reproduction of these key documents, a proje…
Water of Bitterness: The Pardoner and/as the Sotah
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLEExemplaria2004
Water of Bitterness: The Pardoner and/as the Sotah
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLEExemplaria2004
(2004). Water of Bitterness: The Pardoner and/as the Sotah. Exemplaria: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 131-164
Managing Insanity: Carlow Lunatic Asylum, 1832–1922
Open AccessCatherine CoxARTICLEIrish Economic and Social History2004
The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2003
"Il Giudeo di voi": Contiguity and Conflict in Dantes "Paradiso"
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2002
Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2002
Shakespeare and the Bible. Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Catherine Cox, Catherine S Cox et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2001
Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2001
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her Sonnets from the Portuguese. Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism proposes that we attend to the ways that women poets from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries have both echoed and transformed the literary and erotic conventions that strongly influenced their fates as women, wives, and lovers.Mary B. Moore analyzes and provides context for lo…
Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxREVIEWSouth Atlantic Review2000
Begging to Differ: Modes of Discrepancy in Shakespeare
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2000
The frequent inconsistencies in Shakespeare's work, particularly in plot and characterization, have long attracted the attention and even ire of his commentators. Based largely on four plays - Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and Henry V - this study is a detailed exploration of some modes of discrepancy as they relate to three specific areas of Shakespeare's dramaturgy: plot and narrative; language and text; and reasoning and proof…
Neither Gentile Nor Jew: Performative Subjectivity in The Merchant of venice
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLEExemplaria2000

This is Your World: A Book of the Psychosomatic Aspects of Tuberculosis . Harry A. Wilmer , J. Arthur Myers
Catherine CoxARTICLESocial Service Review1953
Apollo: The Race to the Moon
John M Logsdon, Charles Murray et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1991
Literature, Language and Change from Chaucer to the Present
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1992
Reading literature is a quest for sense, involving us in a need to grasp both how meaning is produced by the words on the page and how history, culture and ideology have influenced the choice of those words. Literary English changes from period to period as it reflects variations in the society and culture in which it is produced - variations in the ways writers construct images of their world, shifts in the relationships between readers, texts a…
Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender
Catherine Cox, Catherine S Cox et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1993
Hansen challenges both the long-standing myth of Chaucer as the tolerant, wise Father of English poetry and the recent arguments that Chaucer was a protofeminist, subversive of the misogyny of his day. Hansen argues that these mistaken interpretations inhibit readings of Chaucer that respond to feminist and other poststructuralist critiques of traditional literary scholarship. Hansen suggests that the woman's voice in Chaucer reflects an urgent p…
The Fear of Hell: Images of Damnation and Salvation in Early Modern Europe
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1993
Ian Atherton and Julie Sanders (eds), The 1630s: Interdisciplinary Essays on Culture and Politics in the Caroline Era, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. 218, hb. £55, ISBN: 07190-71585Atherton and Sanders have brought together ten essays (including their introduction), on a broad perspective of the 1630s. They suggest that the decade is worthy of singular study by proposing that many of our images of the decade are airy chimera b…
Disorderly Women and Female Power in the Street Literature of Early Modern England and Germany
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1993
Holy Erotica and the Virgin Word: Promiscuous Glossing in the Wife of Bath's Prologue
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLEExemplaria1993
Holy Erotica and the Virgin Word: Promiscuous Glossing in the Wife of Bath's Prologue
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLEExemplaria1993
(1993). Holy Erotica and the Virgin Word: Promiscuous Glossing in the Wife of Bath's Prologue. Exemplaria: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 207-237
Deciphering Elizabethan Fiction
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1994
Disorderly Women and Female Power in the Street Literature of Early Modern England and Germany
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1994
Writing and Vulnerability in the Late Renaissance
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1994
Combining historical and theoretical sophistication with close readings of major Renaissance texts, this book argues that late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth- century writers were far more vulnerable to the secular and ecclesiastical authorities on whom they depended for their livelihoods than were writers of an earlier era. The book also explores the creative strategies that the vulnerable authors developed to protect themselves from those aut…
The Romance of Origins: Language and Sexual Difference in Middle English Literature
Catherine Cox, Catherine S Cox et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1995
Women in England 1500-1760: A Social History
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1995
Grope wel bihynde”: The Subversive Erotics of Chaucer's Summoner
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLEExemplaria1995
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille.—Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
The Jangler's "Bourde": Gender, Renunciation, and Chaucer's Manciple
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1996
The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1996
Daemonic Figures: Shakespeare and the Question of Conscience
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1996
Shakespeare, the King's Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1996
Shakespeare and the Jews
Catherine Cox, Catherine S Cox et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1997
Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages
Catherine Cox, Catherine S Cox et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1997
Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance Epic
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1997
Gender and Language in Chaucer
John M Ganim, Catherine Cox et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1998
Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1998Cited by: 1
Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy
Catherine Cox, Catherine S Cox et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1999
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book In Covert Operations, Karma Lochrie brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas-confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse-Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out. She reads texts as central to Midd…
Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance
Catherine Cox, Catherine S CoxARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1999
Introduction - Receiving Chaucer in Renaissance England, Theresa M. Krier. Part 1 Forming Canons: Wrastling for this World - Wyatt and the Tudor Canonization of Chaucer, John Watkins Authority and the Defence of Fiction - Renaissance Poetics and Chaucer's House of Fame, Carol A.N. Martin Thomas Speght's Renaissance Chaucer and the Solaas of Sentence in Troilus and Criseyde, Clare Kinney. Part 2 Claims for Narrative Poetry - Chaucer and Spenser: N…