Douglas Lane Patey (born 1952) is an American academic and professor of English at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.[1][2] His area of expertise is 18th-century British literature.[1]
Douglas Lane Patey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1953 Corning, New York, U.S. |
| Title | Sophia Smith Professor of English Language and Literature |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Hamilton College, A.B. University of Virginia, M.A. English |
| Thesis | Concepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age (1979) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English |
| Sub-discipline | 18th-century British literature |
| Institutions | Smith College |
Early life and education edit
Patey was raised in Corning, New York.[3]
Patey received an A.B. from Hamilton College.[1][3] He received MA in English from the University of Virginia in 1973.[1] His thesis was Poets and Painters, and Two Versions of Meredith's Love in the Valley.[4] He received an MA in Philosophy in 1977, also from the University of Virginia.[1] His thesis was Intentionalism in Literary Aesthetics.[5] He received a PhD from the University of Virginia in 1979. His dissertation was Concepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age.[6]
Career edit
Patey became an assistant professor at Smith College in 1979 and a professor in 1991.[2] In 2003, he became the Sophia Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College.[2][1]
In 1994, Patey received a Guggenheim fellowship in English.[7] He has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.[1]
Selected publications edit
Books edit
- Probability and Literary Form: Philosophic Theory and Literary Practice in the Augustan Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-521-25456-6
- The Life of Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography. Blackwell Critical Biographies 8. Oxford: Blackwell. 1998. ISBN 0-631-18933-5
Articles edit
- Patey, Douglas Lane (May 1986). "Art and Integrity: Concepts of Self in Alexander Pope and Edward Young". Modern Philology. 83 (4): 364–378. doi:10.1086/391493. S2CID 162317351.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (January 1986). "Johnson's Refutation of Berkeley: Kicking the Stone Again". Journal of the History of Ideas. 47 (1): 139–145. doi:10.2307/2709600. JSTOR 2709600.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (1986). "'Love Deny'd': Pope and the Allegory of Despair". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 20 (1): 34–55. doi:10.2307/2738592. JSTOR 2738592.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (1988). "The Eighteenth Century Invents the Canon". Modern Language Studies. 18 (1): 17–37. doi:10.2307/3194698. JSTOR 3194698.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (1991). "Swift's Satire on 'Science' and the Structure of Gulliver's Travels". ELH. 58 (4): 809–839. doi:10.2307/2873283. JSTOR 2873283.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (1992). "Hegel on Causality: Toward an Understanding of the Absolute Relation". Idealistic Studies. 22 (2): 179–188. doi:10.5840/idstudies199222223.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (1993). "'Aesthetics' and the Rise of Lyric in the Eighteenth Century". Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 33 (3): 587–608. doi:10.2307/451015. JSTOR 451015.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (Spring 1999). "Anne Finch, John Dyer, and the Georgic Syntax of Nature". The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats. 31 (2): 179. ProQuest 1308681499.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (August 1999). "The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel". Modern Philology. 97 (1): 124–128. doi:10.1086/492819.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (1 May 2000). "Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited". Logos. 3 (2): 9–30. doi:10.1353/log.2000.0017. S2CID 170699242.
- Ross, Trevor (Fall 2000). "'Pure Poetry': Cultural Capital and the Rejection of Classicism". The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats. 33 (1): 31. ProQuest 1308685776.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (Winter 1994). "Penology, Pride, and a Historical Original for Sir Wilfred Lucas-Dockery in Decline and Fall". Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies. 28 (3): 4–7. ProQuest 762398298.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (2005). "Policing the Boundaries of "Nature"". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 38 (4): 686–689. doi:10.1353/ecs.2005.0041. S2CID 144973209. Project MUSE 184718.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (2009). "Digressing toward Truth". Huntington Library Quarterly. 72 (3): 431–435. doi:10.1525/hlq.2009.72.3.431. JSTOR 10.1525/hlq.2009.72.3.431. ProQuest 215265269.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (1 September 2012). "Paranoia and Fiction". Eighteenth-Century Life. 36 (3): 87–91. doi:10.1215/00982601-1672844. S2CID 144378294.
As editor edit
- Patey, D. L., and Keegan, T., eds. Augustan Studies: Essays in Honor of Irvin Ehrenpreis. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985. ISBN 0-87413-272-X
- Patey, D. L. "Of Human Bondage: Historical Perspectives on Addiction". Smith College Studies in History vol. 52. (2003) ISBN 9780873910538
- Waugh, Evelyn Ninety-Two Days. The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh vol. 22. Douglas Lane Patey, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. ISBN 9780198724186
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g "Douglas Lane Patey". Smith College. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
- ^ a b c "Patey, Douglas Lane | Writers Directory". Cengage Encyclopedia. 2006. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
- ^ a b Author Information. The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Oxford University Press. 25 May 2021. ISBN 978-0-19-872418-6. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
- ^ Patey, Douglas Lane (1973). Poets and Painters and Two Versions of Meredith's Love in the Valley: Essays on 19th Century Literature (Thesis). OCLC 19479544.
- ^ Patey, Douglas Lane (1977). Intentionalism in Literary Aesthetics (Thesis). OCLC 3372512.
- ^ Patey, Douglas Lane (1979). Concepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age (Thesis). OCLC 6306112.
- ^ "Douglas Lane Patey". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-17.