J A Downie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1137126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Downie |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Downie |
| SIGNATURE | DOWNIE J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0372-9693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe Vol 8
Jonathan Swift in Context
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Daniel Defoe and the Social Structure of Pre-Industrial England
This chapter uses Defoe’s classification of English society into seven social strata to understand the gradations of rank in England prior to the Industrial Revolution. In the Review, Defoe wrote that English men and women fell into the following social levels: ‘the Great, who live profusely’; ‘the Rich, who live very plentifully’; ‘the middle Sort, who live well’; ‘the working Trades, who labour hard, but feel no Want’; ‘the Country People, Farm…
Daniel Defoe in Context
A Guide to Periēgēsis-Literature (on E. Falaschi, Περιηγηταί nel mondo antico
The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe
The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author’s life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and pe…
The Geography of Empire in Dionysius’ Periegesis
The Periegesis of Dionysius of Alexandria has often been read as an idealized, literary geography. This paper argues instead for a political reading. The main north-south axis of Dionysius' world runs through the Aegean Sea, connecting Alexandria, center of Hellenistic learning, to the Black Sea and its epic heritage. This creates not merely a Greek, but also a distinctly eastern, perspective on the space of empire. Furthermore, the Aegean axis i…
Narrative and Divination
Most ancient evidence for divinatory dreams elides the hermeneutic process. However, the two most expansive literary sources on ancient dreaming, both from the second century CE, focus attention on precisely that issue. Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica and Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi have very different aims, but both writers grapple with the hermeneutic challenges that dreams pose, and both attribute these challenges to dreams’ narrative quality. A…
Reading Swift
Assembling thirty-five lectures delivered at the Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in June 2011, this new volume of Reading Swift testifies to an extraordinary spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his works. As in the successful earlier volumes, the essays have been grouped in eight sections: biographical aspects (W. B. Carnochan, John Irwin Fischer, Clive T. Probyn, Abigail Williams); bibliographical an…
Hieroi Logoi
Dream Description and Dream Hermeneutics
This chapter argues that when we set Aristides’ dream narratives in the Hieroi Logoi against other ancient accounts of dreaming, what stands out is the degree to which Aristides engages the complexity of the dream scenario as a linguistic and literary challenge. This chapter contrasts the dream language of the Hieroi Logoi with the votive conventions associated with temple dreaming and, in more depth, with the concerns of contemporary technical w…
Salvum Lotum! A Rhetor’s Improvised Baths
The performances of physical cure that Aristides recounts in the Hieroi Logoi are evidence of divine support, and this chapter argues that his purpose is to direct this claim of divine support to professional ends. Thus, while Aristides offers a rare glimpse of the experience of illness and healing in the ancient world, his narrative is distinctive in that he refuses the position of patient and constructs as pain’s opposite not a return to health…
Conclusion
The conclusion briefly sums up the argument of the book: that Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi should be read in the context of his professional vocation, as a literary text in which he merges religion and rhetoric to make a claim for his status as a divinely inspired orator in terms that are concrete, embodied, and personal.
Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Printing for the Author in the Long Eighteenth Century
At the Limits of Art
At the Limits of Art' investigates the literary aspirations of Aelius Aristides' puzzling dream-memoir of illness and divine healing, the 'Hieroi logoi
Portrait d’un rhéteur
Portrait d’un rhéteur: Aelius Aristide comme initié mystique et athlète dans les Discours sacrés was published in Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times - Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque on page 76.
A Pindaric Charioteer
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Periodicals, the Book Trade and the ‘Bourgeois Public Sphere’
Despite recent assertions about the new prospects opened up by the literary periodicals which emerged in the years immediately following the expiry in 1695 of the Licensing of Print Act, it is apparent that, right through to the 1740s, writing for the stage remained the best prospect for a writer hoping to make a living by the pen. We should therefore be cautious before we make sweeping generalizations either about the profits to be made out of p…
How useful to eighteenth-century English studies is the paradigm of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’
Although Habermas conceives the bourgeois public sphere as theoretically inclusive, specific groups were clearly excluded from participation in eighteenth-century Britain. Assumptions about certain economic and social developments crucial to Habermas’s thesis, such as the increase in literacy, the growth of the reading public, the rise of a free press, and the up-turn in manufacturing and industry, are based on outdated secondary sources. This al…
To Settle the Succession of the State
The safety of the Protestant Succession dominated politics from the Exclusion Crisis to the Forty-Five rebellion, and for more than half a century questions of religion and ideology were inextricably linked to the choice between de facto reigning monarchs and exiled Stuart Pretenders. The writings of the period are shot through with politics, and this volume in the Context and Commentary series is designed to illustrate how literature forms, modi…
Jonathan Swift
Preface Chronological Table Part I: Days of Deference, 1667-1700 1. Infancy 2. Education 3. Moor Park 4. Swift and the Church Part II: Friend of the Great, 1701-1714 5. Swift and the Whigs 6. A Tale of a Tub 7. Vicar of Laracor 8. Swift and the Tories 9. Dean of St Patrick's Part III: Hibernian Patriot, 1714-1745 10. Exile 11. Swift and Ireland 12. Swift and Walpole 13. Gulliver's Travels 14. Swift, the Opposition and Ireland 15. A Man of Rhimes …
Swift's Tory Politics
At the Limits of Art
At the Limits of Art' investigates the literary aspirations of Aelius Aristides' puzzling dream-memoir of illness and divine healing, the 'Hieroi logoi
The Commission of Public Accounts and the formation of the Country Party
Journal Article The Commission of Public Accounts and the formation of the Country Party Get access J. A. DOWNIE J. A. DOWNIE University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCI, Issue CCCLVIII, January 1976, Pages 33–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCI.CCCLVIII.33 Published: 01 January 1976
Periodicals, the Book Trade and the ‘Bourgeois Public Sphere’
Despite recent assertions about the new prospects opened up by the literary periodicals which emerged in the years immediately following the expiry in 1695 of the Licensing of Print Act, it is apparent that, right through to the 1740s, writing for the stage remained the best prospect for a writer hoping to make a living by the pen. We should therefore be cautious before we make sweeping generalizations either about the profits to be made out of p…
How useful to eighteenth-century English studies is the paradigm of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’
Although Habermas conceives the bourgeois public sphere as theoretically inclusive, specific groups were clearly excluded from participation in eighteenth-century Britain. Assumptions about certain economic and social developments crucial to Habermas’s thesis, such as the increase in literacy, the growth of the reading public, the rise of a free press, and the up-turn in manufacturing and industry, are based on outdated secondary sources. This al…
William Stephens and the Letter to the Author of the Memorial of the State of England Reconsidered
William Stephens and the Letter to the Author of the Memorial of the State of England Reconsidered J. A. DOWNIE J. A. DOWNIE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 50, Issue 122, November 1977, Pages 253–259, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1977.tb01722.x Published: 12 October 2007
Daniel Defoe and the General Election of 1708 in Scotland
THE FIRST GENERAL ELECTION to be held in Scotland after passing of Act of Union in 1707 has received scant attention from historians despite fact that in 1708, as William Coxe noted a century and a half ago, the violent struggle . . . [and] schism between whigs and government ... threatened total ruin of administration.' For three years previously cohesion of governing triumvirate of Godolphin, Marlborough, and Harley had been subjected to increa…
The Commission of Public Accounts and the formation of the Country Party
Journal Article The Commission of Public Accounts and the formation of the Country Party Get access J. A. DOWNIE J. A. DOWNIE University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCI, Issue CCCLVIII, January 1976, Pages 33–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCI.CCCLVIII.33 Published: 01 January 1976
William Stephens and the Letter to the Author of the Memorial of the State of England Reconsidered
William Stephens and the Letter to the Author of the Memorial of the State of England Reconsidered J. A. DOWNIE J. A. DOWNIE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 50, Issue 122, November 1977, Pages 253–259, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1977.tb01722.x Published: 12 October 2007
Robert Harley and the Press
Tradefull Merchants
Swift's Tory Politics
Jonathan Swift
Preface Chronological Table Part I: Days of Deference, 1667-1700 1. Infancy 2. Education 3. Moor Park 4. Swift and the Church Part II: Friend of the Great, 1701-1714 5. Swift and the Whigs 6. A Tale of a Tub 7. Vicar of Laracor 8. Swift and the Tories 9. Dean of St Patrick's Part III: Hibernian Patriot, 1714-1745 10. Exile 11. Swift and Ireland 12. Swift and Walpole 13. Gulliver's Travels 14. Swift, the Opposition and Ireland 15. A Man of Rhimes …
To Settle the Succession of the State
The safety of the Protestant Succession dominated politics from the Exclusion Crisis to the Forty-Five rebellion, and for more than half a century questions of religion and ideology were inextricably linked to the choice between de facto reigning monarchs and exiled Stuart Pretenders. The writings of the period are shot through with politics, and this volume in the Context and Commentary series is designed to illustrate how literature forms, modi…
How useful to eighteenth-century English studies is the paradigm of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’
Although Habermas conceives the bourgeois public sphere as theoretically inclusive, specific groups were clearly excluded from participation in eighteenth-century Britain. Assumptions about certain economic and social developments crucial to Habermas’s thesis, such as the increase in literacy, the growth of the reading public, the rise of a free press, and the up-turn in manufacturing and industry, are based on outdated secondary sources. This al…
Periodicals, the Book Trade and the ‘Bourgeois Public Sphere’
Despite recent assertions about the new prospects opened up by the literary periodicals which emerged in the years immediately following the expiry in 1695 of the Licensing of Print Act, it is apparent that, right through to the 1740s, writing for the stage remained the best prospect for a writer hoping to make a living by the pen. We should therefore be cautious before we make sweeping generalizations either about the profits to be made out of p…
A Pindaric Charioteer
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Portrait d’un rhéteur
Portrait d’un rhéteur: Aelius Aristide comme initié mystique et athlète dans les Discours sacrés was published in Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times - Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque on page 76.
Reading Swift
Assembling thirty-five lectures delivered at the Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in June 2011, this new volume of Reading Swift testifies to an extraordinary spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his works. As in the successful earlier volumes, the essays have been grouped in eight sections: biographical aspects (W. B. Carnochan, John Irwin Fischer, Clive T. Probyn, Abigail Williams); bibliographical an…
Hieroi Logoi
Dream Description and Dream Hermeneutics
This chapter argues that when we set Aristides’ dream narratives in the Hieroi Logoi against other ancient accounts of dreaming, what stands out is the degree to which Aristides engages the complexity of the dream scenario as a linguistic and literary challenge. This chapter contrasts the dream language of the Hieroi Logoi with the votive conventions associated with temple dreaming and, in more depth, with the concerns of contemporary technical w…
Salvum Lotum! A Rhetor’s Improvised Baths
The performances of physical cure that Aristides recounts in the Hieroi Logoi are evidence of divine support, and this chapter argues that his purpose is to direct this claim of divine support to professional ends. Thus, while Aristides offers a rare glimpse of the experience of illness and healing in the ancient world, his narrative is distinctive in that he refuses the position of patient and constructs as pain’s opposite not a return to health…
Conclusion
The conclusion briefly sums up the argument of the book: that Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi should be read in the context of his professional vocation, as a literary text in which he merges religion and rhetoric to make a claim for his status as a divinely inspired orator in terms that are concrete, embodied, and personal.
Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Printing for the Author in the Long Eighteenth Century
At the Limits of Art
At the Limits of Art' investigates the literary aspirations of Aelius Aristides' puzzling dream-memoir of illness and divine healing, the 'Hieroi logoi
Narrative and Divination
Most ancient evidence for divinatory dreams elides the hermeneutic process. However, the two most expansive literary sources on ancient dreaming, both from the second century CE, focus attention on precisely that issue. Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica and Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi have very different aims, but both writers grapple with the hermeneutic challenges that dreams pose, and both attribute these challenges to dreams’ narrative quality. A…
The Geography of Empire in Dionysius’ Periegesis
The Periegesis of Dionysius of Alexandria has often been read as an idealized, literary geography. This paper argues instead for a political reading. The main north-south axis of Dionysius' world runs through the Aegean Sea, connecting Alexandria, center of Hellenistic learning, to the Black Sea and its epic heritage. This creates not merely a Greek, but also a distinctly eastern, perspective on the space of empire. Furthermore, the Aegean axis i…
Abbreviations
Copyright Page
Daniel Defoe and the Social Structure of Pre-Industrial England
This chapter uses Defoe’s classification of English society into seven social strata to understand the gradations of rank in England prior to the Industrial Revolution. In the Review, Defoe wrote that English men and women fell into the following social levels: ‘the Great, who live profusely’; ‘the Rich, who live very plentifully’; ‘the middle Sort, who live well’; ‘the working Trades, who labour hard, but feel no Want’; ‘the Country People, Farm…
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