Dr Adam James Smith
@elementaladam.bsky.social
Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS).
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
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Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history!
The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
We so much enjoyed talking to Leigh about this delightful novel, the state of satiric literacy, what BookTok is doing to the publishing industry & the ways we read & the best way to celebrate Halloween 👻
#halloween #books #authorinterview #satire
#halloween #books #authorinterview #satire
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Acclaimed novelist Leigh Stein returns to talk to Jo & Adam
(@elementaladam.bsky.social) about her new novel, IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS IT'S MEANT FOR YOU, a satirical Gothic novel set inside a TikTok Hype house.
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
#Halloween #satire #gothic
Acclaimed novelist Leigh Stein returns to talk to Jo & Adam
(@elementaladam.bsky.social) about her new novel, IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS IT'S MEANT FOR YOU, a satirical Gothic novel set inside a TikTok Hype house.
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
#Halloween #satire #gothic
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We so much enjoyed talking to Leigh about this delightful novel, the state of satiric literacy, what BookTok is doing to the publishing industry & the ways we read & the best way to celebrate Halloween 👻
#halloween #books #authorinterview #satire
#halloween #books #authorinterview #satire
"When it comes to Jane, so many images have been danced before us.. The effect of all of them together is to make us read novels that aren't actually there." - Helena Kelly
Glorious meeting of the York Georgian Book Club, following a brill lecture by Lizzie Rogers!
#18C #18thCentury #JaneAusten
Glorious meeting of the York Georgian Book Club, following a brill lecture by Lizzie Rogers!
#18C #18thCentury #JaneAusten
October 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"When it comes to Jane, so many images have been danced before us.. The effect of all of them together is to make us read novels that aren't actually there." - Helena Kelly
Glorious meeting of the York Georgian Book Club, following a brill lecture by Lizzie Rogers!
#18C #18thCentury #JaneAusten
Glorious meeting of the York Georgian Book Club, following a brill lecture by Lizzie Rogers!
#18C #18thCentury #JaneAusten
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We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history!
The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
October 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history!
The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer.
You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
September 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer.
You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct:
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
The People of Print
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - The People of Print
www.cambridge.org
September 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct:
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
#18thc #skystorians! Help! Was faux nudity a thing during Restoration masques or plays or early 18thC theatrical productions? Looking for context for a masq habit of a 'naked' Adam (he was wearing sarsinet) & trying to determine how shocking this actually would have been...
September 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
#18thc #skystorians! Help! Was faux nudity a thing during Restoration masques or plays or early 18thC theatrical productions? Looking for context for a masq habit of a 'naked' Adam (he was wearing sarsinet) & trying to determine how shocking this actually would have been...
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@yalebooks.bsky.social are celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday by offering a 30% discount on their 'World of Jane Austen' books using discount code JA250 #skystorians #18thC
yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...
yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...
Austen 250 - The World of Jane Austen - Yale University Press London
30% off the listed prices - and free postage in the UK - on our selected World of Jane Austen books. Use the code JA250 when prompted in the checkout to
yalebooks.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
@yalebooks.bsky.social are celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday by offering a 30% discount on their 'World of Jane Austen' books using discount code JA250 #skystorians #18thC
yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...
yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...
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Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fict...
www.press.jhu.edu
September 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Thrilled to be joining a digression of Sternean colleagues later in the year - I’ll be presenting a paper titled ‘’Travelling Is To Be Recncil’d To Mankind In General’ - An Early Reading of A Sentimental Journey’
We are delighted to be co-hosting the Laurence Sterne Conference this year from 5th - 7th November 2025 at @sotauol.bsky.social🌍
Deadline for registration: 1st September
Deadline for proposals: 15th August
Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25
@lsternetrust.bsky.social
Deadline for registration: 1st September
Deadline for proposals: 15th August
Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25
@lsternetrust.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Thrilled to be joining a digression of Sternean colleagues later in the year - I’ll be presenting a paper titled ‘’Travelling Is To Be Recncil’d To Mankind In General’ - An Early Reading of A Sentimental Journey’
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project!
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
September 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project!
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark
Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark
Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
August 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark
Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark
Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
www.oxforddnb.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
Interesting student-led project (a model of its kind, I should think). Good to see many of the longer Lyrical Tales that I had to exclude from my Shearsman edition of MR, here available, in clear readable and annotated versions.
Download our new student-led @yorkstjohn.bsky.social critical edition of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales for free, here:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical...
Featuring a critical introduction, annotated poems, example readings, timelines, a delightful Foreword by Prof Andy McInnes & a Preface by me.
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical...
Featuring a critical introduction, annotated poems, example readings, timelines, a delightful Foreword by Prof Andy McInnes & a Preface by me.
August 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Interesting student-led project (a model of its kind, I should think). Good to see many of the longer Lyrical Tales that I had to exclude from my Shearsman edition of MR, here available, in clear readable and annotated versions.
Download our new student-led @yorkstjohn.bsky.social critical edition of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales for free, here:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical...
Featuring a critical introduction, annotated poems, example readings, timelines, a delightful Foreword by Prof Andy McInnes & a Preface by me.
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical...
Featuring a critical introduction, annotated poems, example readings, timelines, a delightful Foreword by Prof Andy McInnes & a Preface by me.
August 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Download our new student-led @yorkstjohn.bsky.social critical edition of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales for free, here:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical...
Featuring a critical introduction, annotated poems, example readings, timelines, a delightful Foreword by Prof Andy McInnes & a Preface by me.
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical...
Featuring a critical introduction, annotated poems, example readings, timelines, a delightful Foreword by Prof Andy McInnes & a Preface by me.
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
Delighted to be asked to write the foreword for the York St John University Critical Edition of Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales which you can now read here!
Read Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales - York St John University Critical Editions
Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales, A Modern Edition Lyrical Tales YJSU Critical Edition Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales, A Modern Edition (fully accessible version) Lyrical Tales Accessible YJSU Criti...
blog.yorksj.ac.uk
August 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Delighted to be asked to write the foreword for the York St John University Critical Edition of Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales which you can now read here!
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
Now on the BARS Blog: CfP: 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century' - Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 2026 Conference
See all the details here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6071
Please share widely!!
See all the details here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6071
Please share widely!!
July 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Now on the BARS Blog: CfP: 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century' - Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 2026 Conference
See all the details here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6071
Please share widely!!
See all the details here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6071
Please share widely!!
Ahead of the first meeting of the York Georgian Book Club tomorrow, where we'll be discussing Persuasion, here are my quick initial thoughts on the novel after re-reading it for the first time in 10+ years.
TLDR version: I loved it.
#JaneAusten #18C #18thC #18thCentury
TLDR version: I loved it.
#JaneAusten #18C #18thC #18thCentury
August 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Ahead of the first meeting of the York Georgian Book Club tomorrow, where we'll be discussing Persuasion, here are my quick initial thoughts on the novel after re-reading it for the first time in 10+ years.
TLDR version: I loved it.
#JaneAusten #18C #18thC #18thCentury
TLDR version: I loved it.
#JaneAusten #18C #18thC #18thCentury
Reposted by Dr Adam James Smith
Still looking for others wanting to present at @bsecs.bsky.social 2026 and form a panel. Message me if interested by end of August 2025 though it might be that others have got in touch and a panel is formed by then so don’t delay! #18c #comfort #discomfort #skystorians
Call for interested parties in a panel for @bsecs.bsky.social January 2026! Theme this year is Big/Small. My paper will focus on small comforts + large discomforts in 18th c. letter writing. Let me know if you are interested #18c @cecs-york.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Still looking for others wanting to present at @bsecs.bsky.social 2026 and form a panel. Message me if interested by end of August 2025 though it might be that others have got in touch and a panel is formed by then so don’t delay! #18c #comfort #discomfort #skystorians
Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne
University of Liverpool, 5-7 Nov 2025
CFP open until 15 Sept 2025
More info: terraqueousglobe.wordpress.com
#18thC #18C #18thCentury #Sterne #LaurenceSterne @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social
University of Liverpool, 5-7 Nov 2025
CFP open until 15 Sept 2025
More info: terraqueousglobe.wordpress.com
#18thC #18C #18thCentury #Sterne #LaurenceSterne @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne
University of Liverpool, 5-7 Nov 2025
CFP open until 15 Sept 2025
More info: terraqueousglobe.wordpress.com
#18thC #18C #18thCentury #Sterne #LaurenceSterne @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social
University of Liverpool, 5-7 Nov 2025
CFP open until 15 Sept 2025
More info: terraqueousglobe.wordpress.com
#18thC #18C #18thCentury #Sterne #LaurenceSterne @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social
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CFP: 39th Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
9–11 April 2026, Philadelphia, USA
Papers are invited on any aspect of #C18th Scottish history, thought, & culture, especially the notable 250th anniversaries in 2026
Deadline: 10 Sept. Full details in ALT-text
9–11 April 2026, Philadelphia, USA
Papers are invited on any aspect of #C18th Scottish history, thought, & culture, especially the notable 250th anniversaries in 2026
Deadline: 10 Sept. Full details in ALT-text
August 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
CFP: 39th Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
9–11 April 2026, Philadelphia, USA
Papers are invited on any aspect of #C18th Scottish history, thought, & culture, especially the notable 250th anniversaries in 2026
Deadline: 10 Sept. Full details in ALT-text
9–11 April 2026, Philadelphia, USA
Papers are invited on any aspect of #C18th Scottish history, thought, & culture, especially the notable 250th anniversaries in 2026
Deadline: 10 Sept. Full details in ALT-text
Here are four books I recommend if you enjoyed my piece in @theconversation.com & would like to know more...
#18th #18C #18thcentury #JaneAusten
#18th #18C #18thcentury #JaneAusten
August 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Here are four books I recommend if you enjoyed my piece in @theconversation.com & would like to know more...
#18th #18C #18thcentury #JaneAusten
#18th #18C #18thcentury #JaneAusten
Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?
theconversation.com/jane-austen-...
theconversation.com/jane-austen-...
Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?
Although many women writers were critiquing society in the 18th century, hardly any of them were considered satirists.
theconversation.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?
theconversation.com/jane-austen-...
theconversation.com/jane-austen-...
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Or of course, my edition! www.shearsman.com/store/Mary-R...
August 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Or of course, my edition! www.shearsman.com/store/Mary-R...
Featuring, amongst many other things, our attempt to answer a very tricky question posed recently at a Thackeray Society event at the Reform Club:
How can you when satire is actually nihilistic trolling, when nihilistic trolling is satire, and whether, technically, there is really any difference?
How can you when satire is actually nihilistic trolling, when nihilistic trolling is satire, and whether, technically, there is really any difference?
NEW EPISODE🚨
Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) are having a "dilly dally" summer (the new brat, apparently), talking about new Partridge, new South Park, new Squid Games & 28 Years Later to see if they are satire...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
#satire #podcasts #comedystudies
Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) are having a "dilly dally" summer (the new brat, apparently), talking about new Partridge, new South Park, new Squid Games & 28 Years Later to see if they are satire...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
#satire #podcasts #comedystudies
July 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Featuring, amongst many other things, our attempt to answer a very tricky question posed recently at a Thackeray Society event at the Reform Club:
How can you when satire is actually nihilistic trolling, when nihilistic trolling is satire, and whether, technically, there is really any difference?
How can you when satire is actually nihilistic trolling, when nihilistic trolling is satire, and whether, technically, there is really any difference?