Downie, J. A., ‘Political Characterization in "Gulliver's Travels"’, in Yearbook of English Studies, 7.1 (1977), pp. 108–20, doi:10.2307/3507260

Downie, J. A., review of Andrew Fletcher, David Daiches, Selected Political Writings and Speeches, in Heroes and the Heroic, ed. by G. K. Hunter and C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 12.1 (1982)), pp. 272–73, doi:10.2307/3507442

Downie, J. A., ‘Defoe, Imperialism, and the Travel Books Reconsidered’, in Colonial and Imperial Themes, ed. by G. K. Hunter and C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 13.1 (1983)), pp. 66–83, doi:10.2307/3508113

Downie, J. A., review of John McVeagh, Tradefull Merchants: The Portrayal of the Capitalist in Literature, in Modern Language Review, 79.4 (1984), pp. 894–95, doi:10.2307/3730139

Downie, J. A., review of Maximillian E. Novak, Realism, Myth, and History in Defoe's Fiction, in British Poetry since 1945, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 17.1 (1987)), pp. 297–98, doi:10.2307/3507708

Downie, J. A., review of Howard Erskine-Hill, Graham Storey, Revolutionary Prose of the English Civil War, in Modern Language Review, 82.2 (1987), pp. 449–50, doi:10.2307/3728454

Downie, J. A., review of Irvin Ehrenpreis, Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age. Volume III. Dean Swift, in Pope, Swift, and Their Circle, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 18.1 (1988)), pp. 300–02, doi:10.2307/3508242

Downie, J. A., review of Jeremy Black, The English Press in the Eighteenth Century, in Literature in the Modern Media: Radio, Film, and Television Special Number, ed. by Andrew Gurr (= Yearbook of English Studies, 20.1 (1990)), p. 275, doi:10.2307/3507573

Downie, J. A., review of Jon Mee, Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830, in Modern Language Review, 108.1 (2013), pp. 287–88, doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.108.1.0287