Douglas Lane Patey

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Douglas Lane Patey
Born1953
Corning, New York, U.S.
OccupationSophia Smith Professor of English Language and Literature
Academic background
EducationHamilton College, A.B.

University of Virginia, M.A. English
University of Virginia, M.A. Philosophy

University of Virginia, Ph.D.
ThesisConcepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age (1979)
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish
Sub-discipline18th-century British literature
InstitutionsSmith College

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]

Early life and education[edit]

Patye was raised in Corning, New York.[3]

Patye 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 an 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]

  • "Art and Integrity: Concepts of Self in Alexander Pope and Edward Young." Modern Philology. vol. 83 no. 4 (May 1986) 364-378[8]
  • “Johnson’s Refutation of Berkeley: Kicking the Stone Again.” Journal of the History of Ideas vol. 47, no. 1 (1986): 139–45.[9]
  • "'Love Deny'd'.: Pope and the Allegory of Despair." Eighteenth-Century Studies vol. 20, no. 1 (1986): 34-55.[10]
  • “The Eighteenth Century Invents the Canon.” Modern Language Studies vol. 18, no. 1 (1988): 17–37.[11]
  • “Swift’s Satire on ‘Science’ and the Structure of Gulliver’s Travels.” ELH vol. 58, no. 4 (1991): 809–39.[12]
  • "Hegel on Causality: Toward an Understanding of the Absolute Relation." Idealistic Studies vol. 22, no. 2 (1992): 179-188.[13]
  • “‘Aesthetics’ and the Rise of Lyric in the Eighteenth Century.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 vol. 33, no. 3 (1993): 587–608.[14]
  • "Anne Finch, John Dyer, and the Georgic Syntax of Nature." The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 31, no. 2 (1999):179.[15]
  • “The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel. Everett Zimmerman.” Modern Philology (1999):124–28.[16]
  • "Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited." Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture vol. 3 no. 2 (2000): 9-30.[17]
  • "'Pure Poetry': Cultural Capital and the Rejection of Classicism." The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats vol. 33, no. 1 (2000): 31.[18]
  • "Penology, Pride, and a Historical Original for Sir Wilfred Lucas-Dockery in Decline and Fall" Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies vol. 28, no. 3 (1994): 4.
  • "Policing the Boundaries of 'Nature"'. Eighteenth-Century Studies vol. 38 no. 4 (2005): 686-6891[19]
  • "Digressing toward Truth." in Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed. Reid Barbour and Claire Preston, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780199236213
  • "Paranoia and Fiction." Eighteenth-Century Life vol. 36 (2020): 87-91.[20]

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]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Douglas Lane Patey". Smith College. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  2. ^ a b c "Patey, Douglas Lane | Writers Directory". Cengage Encyclopedia. 2006. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  3. ^ a b "Author Information". Oxford University Press. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  4. ^ Patey Douglas Lane. 1973. “Poets and Painters and Two Versions of Meredith's Love in the Valley: Essays on 19th Century Literature.” Dissertation. University of Virginia.:
  5. ^ Patey Douglas Lane. 1977. “Intentionalism in Literary Aesthetics.” Dissertation. University of Virginia.
  6. ^ Patey Douglas Lane. 1979. “Concepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age.” Dissertation. University of Virginia. OCLC 6306112.
  7. ^ "Douglas Lane Patey". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  8. ^ Patey, D. L. "Art and Integrity: Concepts of Self in Alexander Pope and Edward Young." Modern Philology. vol. 83 no. 4 (May 1986) 364-378. via The University of Chicago Press
  9. ^ Patey, Douglas Lane. “Johnson’s Refutation of Berkeley: Kicking the Stone Again.” Journal of the History of Ideas 47, no. 1 (1986): 139–45. via JSTOR.
  10. ^ Patey, Douglas Lane. “‘Love Deny’d’: Pope and the Allegory of Despair.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 20, no. 1 (1986): 34–55. via JSTOR
  11. ^ Patey, Douglas Lane. “The Eighteenth Century Invents the Canon.” Modern Language Studies 18, no. 1 (1988): 17–37. via JSTOR.
  12. ^ Patey, Douglas Lane. “Swift’s Satire on ‘Science’ and the Structure of Gulliver’s Travels.” ELH 58, no. 4 (1991): 809–39. via JSTOR.
  13. ^ Patey, D. L. "Hegel on Causality: Toward an Understanding of the Absolute Relation." Idealistic Studies vol. 22, no. 2 (1992): 179-188. via Philosophy Documentation Center.
  14. ^ Patey, Douglas Lane. “‘Aesthetics’ and the Rise of Lyric in the Eighteenth Century.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 33, no. 3 (1993): 587–608. via JSTOR
  15. ^ Patey, D. L. "Anne Finch, John Dyer, and the Georgic Syntax of Nature." The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 31, no. 2 (1999): 179. via Pro Quest.
  16. ^ Patey Douglas Lane. 1999. “The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel. Everett Zimmerman.” Modern Philology 124–28. via JSTOR
  17. ^ Patey, D. L. "Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited." Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture vol. 3 no. 2 (2000): 9-30. via Philosophy Documentation Center
  18. ^ "'Pure Poetry': Cultural Capital and the Rejection of Classicism - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  19. ^ Patey, Douglas Lane (2005). "Policing the Boundaries of "Nature"". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 38 (4): 686–689. doi:10.1353/ecs.2005.0041. ISSN 1086-315X – via Project Muse.
  20. ^ Patey Douglas Lane. 2012. “Paranoia and Fiction.” Eighteenth-Century Life 87–91. doi:10.1215/00982601-1672844.
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