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Douglas Lane Patey

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Douglas Lane Patey
Born1953
TitleSophia 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

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

Patey 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

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Patey became an assistant professor at Smith College in 1979 and a 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

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Books

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  • 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
  • Editor, Of Human Bondage: Historical Perspectives on Addiction. Northampton, MA: Smith College Studies in History, vol. 52 (2003).
  • Editor, Evelyn Waugh: Ninety-Two Days, Vol. 22 of The Collected Works of Evelyn Waugh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Articles

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As editor

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  • 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

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  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. The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Oxford University Press. 25 May 2021. ISBN 978-0-19-872418-6. 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 (Thesis). OCLC 19479544.
  5. ^ Patey, Douglas Lane (1977). Intentionalism in Literary Aesthetics (Thesis). OCLC 3372512.
  6. ^ Patey, Douglas Lane (1979). Concepts of Probability in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age (Thesis). OCLC 6306112.
  7. ^ "Douglas Lane Patey". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-17.