Jonathan Fowler
Biographic Data
| ID | 240179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Fowler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Fowler |
| SIGNATURE | FOWLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2370-6594 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1873 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
James Stavridis, The Sailor’s Bookshelf
Of all contemporary writers publishing on maritime topics, possibly none are more qualified than Admiral James Stavridis USN (ret'd) to compile a list of books which faithfully introduce the reader to the true nature of the sea.In The Sailor's Bookshelf: Fifty Books to Know the Sea, Stavridis introduces the reader to what he believes are the best literary works that ought to bring a comprehensive understanding to even the most uninitiated landlub…
Exploring the perspectives of Australian neurodivergent university students
More Australian students who are neurodivergent are entering post-secondary education. Experiences of higher education varies for these students. We investigated the university experience of 33 neurodivergent undergraduates in higher education through individual semi-structured interviews. Participants were enrolled in Education or Health Sciences. Data were analysed using thematic analysis and three major themes were identified: lived perspectiv…
The Far Northeast
Automated rapid artefact surface area measurement from imagery with computer vision
Automated surface area measurements have been of interest to archaeologists since digital imagery began allowing researchers to remotely collect artefact metrics. We present a method of automatically measuring 2D surface area from artefact planform images employing computer vision in Python. The Python script, provided as a .py file in supplementary data, creates boundaries around regions of relatively homogeneous pixels (artefacts) in the image.…
Archaeological herbivore δ13C and δ34S provide a marker for saltmarsh use and new insights into the process of 15N-enrichment in coastal plants
The Archaeologist’s Evangeline
The French colony of Acadia, located in what is now the Maritime Provinces of Canada and part of the State of Maine, has long attracted the attention of writers and scholars. Immigrating to the region in the early seventeenth century, the Acadian colonists established a viable agricultural economy without alienating the region’s indigenous peoples. Despite these achievements, imperial politics brought war to the region in the mid-eighteenth centu…
Richardson and the Philosophes
In mid-eighteenth-century Europe, a taste for sentiment accompanied the 'rise of the novel', and the success of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) played a vital role in this. James Fowler's new study is the first to compare the response of the most famous philosophes to the Richardson phenomenon. Voltaire, who claims to despise the novel, writes four 'Richardsonian' fictions; Diderot's fascination with the English author is expressed in La Religieuse…
Myth, Memory and Militarization
Forgetting, I would even go so far as to say historical error, is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation.”— Ernst Renan (1882)Renan's words are as relevant today as they were when he first r
Something Downright Detestable”
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), several characters express repugnance for Edward Hyde’s person without quite being able to explain their aversion. First
Enlightenment Orientalism
Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel." Modern & Contemporary France, 24(3), pp. 331–332
Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature
The Best of All Possible Marriages
A recent edition of Voltaire's Paméla (1750-53) by Jonathan Mallinson emphasizes that it exists 'on the border of truth and fiction, of openness and concealment'. In the first letter of Paméla , Voltaire describes a landscape of exceptional natural beauty, near Cleves; but he also reveals that in this case nature has been arranged according to human design. The only visible evidence of this is a statue of Minerva. Yet it turns out that, in a sens…
Diderot
In his Images de Diderot en France, 1784–1913, Raymond Trousson shows how the philosophe’s major texts were appropriated or repudiated between his death and the bicentenary of his birth. A picture gradually emerges of how far Diderot’s reputation has been from having a safe or permanent home. Other reception studies include Rene Tarin’s monograph on responses to Diderot in the period from 1789 to the dawn of the First Empire. A recent special iss…
La Religieuse
The pioneering critic Georges May characterises La Religieuse as Diderot's novel ‘à la manière de Richardson’ (‘in the manner of Richardson’); and in many respects it would be perverse to argue with this assessment. Richardson's Clarissa in particular became a source of plot elements, characters and themes without which La Religieuse would surely have been a very different work. In some ways, Diderot was bound to love the English author because h…
New Essays on Diderot
The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–84) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has often been credited with hastening the onset of the Fr…
NSF Political Science Program Awards and AAAS Political Scientist Electees
The political science program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces it awards for basic research support and dissertation improvement grants for fiscal year 2010. The program funded 75 new projects and 31 doctoral dissertation improvement proposals. Additional program funds were spent on continuing grant increments, which result from awards that were made in previous fiscal years, but for which funds are being disbursed on a yearly b…
When Opposites Attract
Protect and Present—Parks Canada and Public Archaeology in Atlantic Canada
Farmhouse Holidays in Ireland
III.— On the Process of Decay in Glass, and, incidentally, on the Composition and Texture of Glass at different periods, and the History of its Manufacture
Glass is, in many respects, one of the most remarkable substances in the world. No known substance combines such varied uses with such matchless beauties. For innumerable domestic purposes it has for centuries been considered a necessity of daily life. Without glass innumerable paths in science and the arts would never have been explored; and in these paths progress has been made in proportion as the methods of making glass have been improved. On…
XI.— On Mediæval Representations of the Months and Seasons
None of the phenomena of Nature can earlier, or more widely, or more deeply have attracted notice and curiosity than the phenomena of the Seasons ; and none, probably, earlier or more widely became embodied in art and poetry. For that reason few subjects, probably, would prove of greater interest in themselves, or in the light which they reflected, incidentally, on the life and thought of those who have gone before us, if undertaken by an accompl…
XI.— On Mediæval Representations of the Months and Seasons
None of the phenomena of Nature can earlier, or more widely, or more deeply have attracted notice and curiosity than the phenomena of the Seasons ; and none, probably, earlier or more widely became embodied in art and poetry. For that reason few subjects, probably, would prove of greater interest in themselves, or in the light which they reflected, incidentally, on the life and thought of those who have gone before us, if undertaken by an accompl…
III.— On the Process of Decay in Glass, and, incidentally, on the Composition and Texture of Glass at different periods, and the History of its Manufacture
Glass is, in many respects, one of the most remarkable substances in the world. No known substance combines such varied uses with such matchless beauties. For innumerable domestic purposes it has for centuries been considered a necessity of daily life. Without glass innumerable paths in science and the arts would never have been explored; and in these paths progress has been made in proportion as the methods of making glass have been improved. On…
Farmhouse Holidays in Ireland
Protect and Present—Parks Canada and Public Archaeology in Atlantic Canada
When Opposites Attract
La Religieuse
The pioneering critic Georges May characterises La Religieuse as Diderot's novel ‘à la manière de Richardson’ (‘in the manner of Richardson’); and in many respects it would be perverse to argue with this assessment. Richardson's Clarissa in particular became a source of plot elements, characters and themes without which La Religieuse would surely have been a very different work. In some ways, Diderot was bound to love the English author because h…
New Essays on Diderot
The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–84) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has often been credited with hastening the onset of the Fr…
NSF Political Science Program Awards and AAAS Political Scientist Electees
The political science program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces it awards for basic research support and dissertation improvement grants for fiscal year 2010. The program funded 75 new projects and 31 doctoral dissertation improvement proposals. Additional program funds were spent on continuing grant increments, which result from awards that were made in previous fiscal years, but for which funds are being disbursed on a yearly b…
Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature
The Best of All Possible Marriages
A recent edition of Voltaire's Paméla (1750-53) by Jonathan Mallinson emphasizes that it exists 'on the border of truth and fiction, of openness and concealment'. In the first letter of Paméla , Voltaire describes a landscape of exceptional natural beauty, near Cleves; but he also reveals that in this case nature has been arranged according to human design. The only visible evidence of this is a statue of Minerva. Yet it turns out that, in a sens…
Diderot
In his Images de Diderot en France, 1784–1913, Raymond Trousson shows how the philosophe’s major texts were appropriated or repudiated between his death and the bicentenary of his birth. A picture gradually emerges of how far Diderot’s reputation has been from having a safe or permanent home. Other reception studies include Rene Tarin’s monograph on responses to Diderot in the period from 1789 to the dawn of the First Empire. A recent special iss…
Something Downright Detestable”
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), several characters express repugnance for Edward Hyde’s person without quite being able to explain their aversion. First
Enlightenment Orientalism
Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel." Modern & Contemporary France, 24(3), pp. 331–332
Richardson and the Philosophes
In mid-eighteenth-century Europe, a taste for sentiment accompanied the 'rise of the novel', and the success of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) played a vital role in this. James Fowler's new study is the first to compare the response of the most famous philosophes to the Richardson phenomenon. Voltaire, who claims to despise the novel, writes four 'Richardsonian' fictions; Diderot's fascination with the English author is expressed in La Religieuse…
Myth, Memory and Militarization
Forgetting, I would even go so far as to say historical error, is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation.”— Ernst Renan (1882)Renan's words are as relevant today as they were when he first r
The Archaeologist’s Evangeline
The French colony of Acadia, located in what is now the Maritime Provinces of Canada and part of the State of Maine, has long attracted the attention of writers and scholars. Immigrating to the region in the early seventeenth century, the Acadian colonists established a viable agricultural economy without alienating the region’s indigenous peoples. Despite these achievements, imperial politics brought war to the region in the mid-eighteenth centu…
Archaeological herbivore δ13C and δ34S provide a marker for saltmarsh use and new insights into the process of 15N-enrichment in coastal plants
Automated rapid artefact surface area measurement from imagery with computer vision
Automated surface area measurements have been of interest to archaeologists since digital imagery began allowing researchers to remotely collect artefact metrics. We present a method of automatically measuring 2D surface area from artefact planform images employing computer vision in Python. The Python script, provided as a .py file in supplementary data, creates boundaries around regions of relatively homogeneous pixels (artefacts) in the image.…
The Far Northeast
James Stavridis, The Sailor’s Bookshelf
Of all contemporary writers publishing on maritime topics, possibly none are more qualified than Admiral James Stavridis USN (ret'd) to compile a list of books which faithfully introduce the reader to the true nature of the sea.In The Sailor's Bookshelf: Fifty Books to Know the Sea, Stavridis introduces the reader to what he believes are the best literary works that ought to bring a comprehensive understanding to even the most uninitiated landlub…
Exploring the perspectives of Australian neurodivergent university students
More Australian students who are neurodivergent are entering post-secondary education. Experiences of higher education varies for these students. We investigated the university experience of 33 neurodivergent undergraduates in higher education through individual semi-structured interviews. Participants were enrolled in Education or Health Sciences. Data were analysed using thematic analysis and three major themes were identified: lived perspectiv…
Art (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · History (6 works) · French Literature and Criticism (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought (4 works)