William C. Dowling
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William C. Dowling (born April 1944 in Warner, New Hampshire) is the University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, specialising in Eighteenth-century literature, colonial American literature and literature of the early American Republic, Semantic theory, philosophy of language, and Critical Theory.
[edit] Biography
Born in Warner, New Hampshire, Dowling earned a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and his Master of Arts (M.A.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Harvard University. Dowling is a past fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh and the National Humanities Center, and has held Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Howard Foundation fellowships.
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, And the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (University Press of New England, 2006) ISBN 1-58465-579-8
- A Readers Companion to Infinite Jest with Robert H. Bell (Xlibris Corporation, 2005) ISBN 1-4134-8446-8
- The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory (University of Nebraska Press, 1999) ISBN 0-8032-6617-0
- Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Dennie and the Port Folio, 1801-1812 (University of South Carolina Press, 1999) ISBN 1-57003-243-2
- The Epistolary Moment: The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991) ISBN 0-691-06891-7
- Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut (University of Georgia Press, 1990) ISBN 0-8203-1286-X
- Jameson, Althusser, Marx: An Introduction to the Political Unconscious (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984) ISBN 0-8014-9284-X
- Language and Logos in Boswell's Life of Johnson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981) ISBN 0-691-06455-5
- The Boswellian Hero (University of Georgia Press, 1979) ISBN 0-8203-0461-1
- The critic's hornbook: Reading for interpretation (Crowell, 1977) ISBN 0-690-00884-8
