Elisha Cohn

Biographic Data

ID3858780
NAMEElisha Cohn
GIVEN NAMESElisha
FAMILY NAMECohn
SIGNATURECOHN E
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
ORCID0000-0002-8475-1893
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot

    JULIETTE ATKINSON, Elisha CohnEDITORBOOKOxford Handbook of George Eliot2025

    The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot is the most wide-ranging collection of essays on Eliot’s life and works published to date. Part I, on Eliot’s ‘Life and Networks’, explores her personal and intellectual relationships with her contemporaries. Part II, ‘Influences’, gives unprecedented attention to Eliot’s close engagement with earlier poets, dramatists, novelists, as well as with painting, sculpture, and music, and in so doing probes Eliot’s in…

  • Oxford Handbook of George Eliot

    Elisha Cohn, JULIETTE ATKINSONBOOKOxford Handbook of George Eliot2025

  • Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture by Lindsay Wilhelm

    Elisha CohnARTICLEVictorians Institute Journal2025

    “Progress,” Oscar Wilde noted as a college undergraduate, “is simply the instinct of self-preservation in humanity, the desire to affirm one’s own essence. . . . Mankind has been continually . . . turning the key on its own spirit: but after a time there is an enormous desire for higher freedom—for self-preservation” (qtd. 102). Reading the work of theorist Herbert Spencer, the young and surprisingly industrious Wilde found in evolutionary optimi…

  • Virtual Minds, Victorian Novels, and the Question of Modeling

    Open AccessElisha CohnARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2020

    Snagsby's paper shop in Bleak House (1853) deals in “all sorts of blank forms of legal process; in skins and rolls of parchment; in paper—foolscap, brief, draft, brown, white, whitey-brown, and blotting; in stamps; in office-quills, pens, India-rubber, pounce, pins, pencils, sealing-wax, and wafers; in red tape, and green ferret; in pocket-books, almanacks, diaries, and law lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands—glass and leaden, penknives, sc…

  • Dickens's Talking Dogs

    Open AccessElisha CohnARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2019Cited by: 1References: 15

    How does the category of the “animal” contribute to the Victorian novel? In the 1840s and 1850s, magazines offered endless short tales of “animal sagacity” that most commonly featured dogs, demonstrating the virtues of the species. An 1858 article in Household Words, “Old Dog Tray,” observes, “Alas! not a day will pass but we can descry human qualities in the brute, and brute qualities in the human being; and, alas again, how often we find a bala…

  • Affect

    Open AccessElisha CohnARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2018Cited by: 1References: 2

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  • Curious Subjects

    Elisha CohnARTICLETextual Practice2014

  • One single ivory cell’

    Elisha CohnARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2012Cited by: 1

    Journal Article ‘One single ivory cell’: Oscar Wilde and the Brain Get access Elisha Cohn Elisha Cohn 1Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 17, Issue 2, 1 June 2012, Pages 183–205, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2011.632074 Published: 01 June 2012