William C Dowling
Biographic Data
| ID | 372760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William C Dowling |
| GIVEN NAMES | William C |
| FAMILY NAME | Dowling |
| SIGNATURE | DOWLING W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jameson, Althusser, Marx
Frederic Jameson is widely regarded as one of the most original and influential Marxist critics of the last decades. His most controversial work, The Political Unconscious, had an enormous impact on literary criticism and cultural studies. In Jameson, Althusser, Marx, first published in 1984, Professor Dowling sets out to provide the intellectual background needed for an understanding of Jameson’s argument and its broader implications. He elucida…
Boston in the Time of Cholera
Boston medical students trained in Paris in the 1830s repudiated “heroic” practice (bleeding, drugging, purging) in therapeutics. When James Jackson Jr. encountered a supposed miracle treatment—saline injections bringing cholera patients back from the brink of death—he dismissed it as another heroic remedy. Viewed in historical context, that conclusion seems justified
Ricoeur on Time and Narrative
Boswell at the Breakfast Table
Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is subtitled “Every Man His Own Boswell”: a declaration not only of Holmes's admiration for Samuel Johnson but of his urgent sense of Johnson's London circle as embodying intellectual values still sadly lacking in an America ruled by crude economic individualism
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Meaningless grades and a new dishonesty
Big-time sports as academic prostitution
Aremarkable feature of the recent literature on college sports is its virtually unanimous agreement that commercialized athletics has been a destructive force in American higher education. Disagreement comes only in the various—and endless—proposals about what is to be done. Yet even here there is substantial agreement, with a majority of critics arguing that the solution is to make athletics in Division IA of the National Collegiate Athletic Ass…
Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson
Port Folio magazine, America's first major journal of literary and political opinion, was edited by Joseph Dennie between 1801 and 1811. This new study argues that as Port Folio mounted a last spirited defense of classical republican values against jacobinism, the struggle between its Federalist writers and the forces of Jeffersonian ideology gave rise to an important tradition in American writing. The triumphing of Jefferson's part will be but s…
Enemies of promise
Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson
Federalists Reconsidered
Sports, race, and ressentiment
Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson
Literary Federalism in the Age Jefferson
The Epistolary Moment
Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut
Poetry, once despaired W.H.Auden, makes nothing happen. That, however, is a modern condition, argues William Dowling, for in the 18th century poets helped topple corrupt governments and fuel revolutions. In this work on the creation and early days of the republic, Dowling revives the literary and intellectual atmosphere of the period by examining major works of four early poets of the circle known as the Connecticut Wits and their forerunners. Un…
Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut
Journal Article Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut. By William C. Dowling. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xxii + 167 pp. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $12.00.) Get access Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut. By Dowling William C.. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xxii + 167 pp. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $12.00.) David S. Shields David S. Shields Citadel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut
Germanissimi Germanorum
Dimensions of Religiosity in Old Age
Research on religiosity and aging has focused more on church attendance than on the religious role and the strength of beliefs and the extent of private devotions. This study of 123 older West Texans examines the degree to which nine variables account for variation in both organized religious activities and private religious behavior. These include three social activity and interaction variables, three religion variables, and three personal varia…
Language and Logos in Boswell's Life of Johnson
Jameson, Althusser, Marx
1. Dialectical Thinking 2. Thinking the Totality 3. The Problem of the Superstructure 4. Strategies of Containment 5. Narrative and Interpretation 6. The Political Unconscious
Intentionless Meaning
Language and Logos in Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
In this deconstructionist interpretation of a major eighteenth-century work, William Dowling analyzes Boswell's Life of Johnson as a paradigm of antithetical structure in narrative, and develops a grammar of discontinuity" for interpreting other texts as well. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist o…
Boswell's Paoli
Ricoeur on Time and Narrative
Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut
Poetry, once despaired W.H.Auden, makes nothing happen. That, however, is a modern condition, argues William Dowling, for in the 18th century poets helped topple corrupt governments and fuel revolutions. In this work on the creation and early days of the republic, Dowling revives the literary and intellectual atmosphere of the period by examining major works of four early poets of the circle known as the Connecticut Wits and their forerunners. Un…
Sports, race, and ressentiment
Invisible Audience
Boswell's Paoli
The Boswellian Hero
Language and Logos in Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
In this deconstructionist interpretation of a major eighteenth-century work, William Dowling analyzes Boswell's Life of Johnson as a paradigm of antithetical structure in narrative, and develops a grammar of discontinuity" for interpreting other texts as well. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist o…
Intentionless Meaning
Language and Logos in Boswell's Life of Johnson
Jameson, Althusser, Marx
1. Dialectical Thinking 2. Thinking the Totality 3. The Problem of the Superstructure 4. Strategies of Containment 5. Narrative and Interpretation 6. The Political Unconscious
Dimensions of Religiosity in Old Age
Research on religiosity and aging has focused more on church attendance than on the religious role and the strength of beliefs and the extent of private devotions. This study of 123 older West Texans examines the degree to which nine variables account for variation in both organized religious activities and private religious behavior. These include three social activity and interaction variables, three religion variables, and three personal varia…
Germanissimi Germanorum
The Epistolary Moment
Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut
Poetry, once despaired W.H.Auden, makes nothing happen. That, however, is a modern condition, argues William Dowling, for in the 18th century poets helped topple corrupt governments and fuel revolutions. In this work on the creation and early days of the republic, Dowling revives the literary and intellectual atmosphere of the period by examining major works of four early poets of the circle known as the Connecticut Wits and their forerunners. Un…
Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut
Journal Article Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut. By William C. Dowling. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xxii + 167 pp. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $12.00.) Get access Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut. By Dowling William C.. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xxii + 167 pp. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $12.00.) David S. Shields David S. Shields Citadel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut
Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson
Literary Federalism in the Age Jefferson
Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson
Port Folio magazine, America's first major journal of literary and political opinion, was edited by Joseph Dennie between 1801 and 1811. This new study argues that as Port Folio mounted a last spirited defense of classical republican values against jacobinism, the struggle between its Federalist writers and the forces of Jeffersonian ideology gave rise to an important tradition in American writing. The triumphing of Jefferson's part will be but s…
Enemies of promise
Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson
Federalists Reconsidered
Sports, race, and ressentiment
Big-time sports as academic prostitution
Aremarkable feature of the recent literature on college sports is its virtually unanimous agreement that commercialized athletics has been a destructive force in American higher education. Disagreement comes only in the various—and endless—proposals about what is to be done. Yet even here there is substantial agreement, with a majority of critics arguing that the solution is to make athletics in Division IA of the National Collegiate Athletic Ass…
Meaningless grades and a new dishonesty
Welcome to www.ratemystudents.com
first d iscovered the web site ra temyprofessors last fall d u r i n g preregistration, when the Rutgers s tuden t newspaper ran an article du r ing the week that s tudents were choos ing courses for the next term. Betore register for the spr ing semester, one s o p h o m o r e told the 7?zrgum reporter I make sure check ottt the site. It's a grea t way to f ind ou t abou t the course and professors. T h e 7?zrcum story m a d e it clear that Rntg…
Boswell at the Breakfast Table
Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is subtitled “Every Man His Own Boswell”: a declaration not only of Holmes's admiration for Samuel Johnson but of his urgent sense of Johnson's London circle as embodying intellectual values still sadly lacking in an America ruled by crude economic individualism
Ricoeur on Time and Narrative
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