Downing A Thomas

Biographic Data

ID3681941
NAMEDowning A Thomas
GIVEN NAMESDowning A
FAMILY NAMEThomas
SIGNATURETHOMAS D A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • The Comedians of the King: “Opéra Comique” and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution , by Julia Doe

    D Thomas, Downing A ThomasARTICLEJournal of the American…2022

    The American observer is often bemused by the importance, and the budget, that the French state attributes to culture. On this side of the Atlantic, where the White House attempted to zero out the modest budgets of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts for 2021, a cabinet-level culture appointment is unthinkable.The strong bond between French identity and culture today harks back, mutatis mutandis, to t…

  • The Sounds of Siam

    D Thomas, Downing A ThomasARTICLEFrench Historical Studies2022References: 15

    A series of diplomatic contacts between France and Siam was initiated in the 1660s primarily through missionary efforts and the expansion of France's global trade network. These diplomatic drives and their historical significance have been described by previous commentators in relation to Louis XIV's global ambitions and his efforts at royal image building. An aspect of these exchanges that has attracted relatively little commentary is the attent…

  • Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

    Downing A Thomas, Lisa Forman CodyBOOKStudies in Eighteenth-Century…2013

  • Negotiating Taste in Montesquieu

    D Thomas, Downing A ThomasARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies2005Cited by: 1References: 2

    Montesquieu's unfinished essay on taste, often considered weak and superficial, has been neglected by scholars. This article aims to provide a better understanding of the essay, published in incomplete form in the Encyclopédie after Montesquieu's death in 1755, by suggesting connections between his writings on aesthetics and his much more voluminous publications on politics and society. The article examines how Montesquieu sought to negotiate the…

  • Regime Change

    Andrew Thomson, D Thomas et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times2003

  • Double Dialectics: Between Universalism and Relativism in Enlightenment and Postmodern Thought

    D Thomas, Downing A ThomasARTICLESubStance2003

    "The Enlightenment" and "Enlightenment thought" are weighty terms. In the past twenty years or so, they have taken on connotations nearly diametrically opposed to those they enjoyed in previous decades. For scholars such as Ernst Cassirer and Peter Gay, the Enlightenment was a moral highpoint in the development of critical reason, seen as an arm that could be used to combat superstition of all stripes. For Cassirer, Gay, and a generation of liter…

  • Opera, Dispossession, and the Sublime: The Case of Armide

    D Thomas, Downing A ThomasARTICLETheatre Journal1997References: 3

    Opera, Dispossession, and the Sublime: The Case of Armide Downing A. Thomas (bio) “La scène invisible hante” —Pascal Quignard 1 Opera was new to late-seventeenth-century France, at once an object of fascination and revulsion. Beginning in 1672, Philippe Quinault and Jean-Baptiste Lully (né Giovanni Battista Lulli) created the first French operas as tragédies en musique. Spectators were seduced; theorists were skeptical. What was one to do with a …

  • Music and the Origins of Language: Theories from the French Enlightenment

    Open AccessKofi Agawu, D Thomas et al.ARTICLENotes1996

  • Music and the Origins of Language: Theories from the French Enlightenment

    Open AccessD Thomas, Downing A ThomasBOOKMusic and the Origins of…1995

    The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. What has often escaped notice, however, is the fact that music figures prominently in this search. This study analyses instances of thinking or reasoning about music and music theory as they appear within the logical and narrative structure of contemporary texts, including writings by Rousseau, Diderot, Rameau and Condillac. These c…

  • Architectural Visions of Lyric Theater and Spectatorship in Late-Eighteenth-Century France

    D Thomas, Downing A ThomasARTICLERepresentations1995

    Research Article| October 01 1995 Architectural Visions of Lyric Theater and Spectatorship in Late-Eighteenth-Century France Downing A. Thomas Downing A. Thomas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1995) 52: 52–75. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928699 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get …

  • "Economy and Identity in Graffigny's "Lettres d'une Peruvienne

    Open AccessD Thomas, Downing A ThomasARTICLESouth Central Review1993

    Ah! ah! Monsieur est Persan? c'est une chose bien extraordinaire! Comment peut-on Otre Persan?' At the close of letter 30 of the Lettres persanes, Rica faces a question about his identity. No longer in his native dress, Rica is surrounded by a group of Parisians who have discovered that he is indeed Persian despite his new European clothing. It is in this way that Montesquieu stages a confrontation between a crowd of curious Parisians and Rica, w…