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)
"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
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
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
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
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
Here is the cover to our forthcoming digital edition of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales!
It is an original piece by artist Lara Aiken.
The edition has been edited by @yorkstjohn.bsky.social students with a new preface by @drbeard79.bsky.social.
It'll be free to download from 10th August. 18thC
It is an original piece by artist Lara Aiken.
The edition has been edited by @yorkstjohn.bsky.social students with a new preface by @drbeard79.bsky.social.
It'll be free to download from 10th August. 18thC
July 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Here is the cover to our forthcoming digital edition of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales!
It is an original piece by artist Lara Aiken.
The edition has been edited by @yorkstjohn.bsky.social students with a new preface by @drbeard79.bsky.social.
It'll be free to download from 10th August. 18thC
It is an original piece by artist Lara Aiken.
The edition has been edited by @yorkstjohn.bsky.social students with a new preface by @drbeard79.bsky.social.
It'll be free to download from 10th August. 18thC
'Sancho and his World', a British Academy/Northeastern University Conference in March 2026.
CFP deadline, 14th July 2025.
#18thC #18thCentury #18C #CFP @bsecs.bsky.social
CFP deadline, 14th July 2025.
#18thC #18thCentury #18C #CFP @bsecs.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
'Sancho and his World', a British Academy/Northeastern University Conference in March 2026.
CFP deadline, 14th July 2025.
#18thC #18thCentury #18C #CFP @bsecs.bsky.social
CFP deadline, 14th July 2025.
#18thC #18thCentury #18C #CFP @bsecs.bsky.social
PSA: My article on satire & cannibalism after Swift is currently available open access in the European Journal for Humour Research:
europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/issue/v...
It's part of an amazing special issue ed. by Anne-Sophie Bories & Nils Couturier
#18c #18thC @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social
europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/issue/v...
It's part of an amazing special issue ed. by Anne-Sophie Bories & Nils Couturier
#18c #18thC @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
PSA: My article on satire & cannibalism after Swift is currently available open access in the European Journal for Humour Research:
europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/issue/v...
It's part of an amazing special issue ed. by Anne-Sophie Bories & Nils Couturier
#18c #18thC @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social
europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/issue/v...
It's part of an amazing special issue ed. by Anne-Sophie Bories & Nils Couturier
#18c #18thC @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social
CFP: PGR/ECR Symposium
Abstract deadline: 22 Oct 2025
Info:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/c...
#Hauntology #Folkhorror #Gothic #horror #cfp @bloomsburyspectres.bsky.social
Abstract deadline: 22 Oct 2025
Info:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/c...
#Hauntology #Folkhorror #Gothic #horror #cfp @bloomsburyspectres.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
CFP: PGR/ECR Symposium
Abstract deadline: 22 Oct 2025
Info:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/c...
#Hauntology #Folkhorror #Gothic #horror #cfp @bloomsburyspectres.bsky.social
Abstract deadline: 22 Oct 2025
Info:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/c...
#Hauntology #Folkhorror #Gothic #horror #cfp @bloomsburyspectres.bsky.social
The first meeting will be held on Friday 8th August, coinciding with the 3rd Annual York Georgian Festival, venue TBC. The first book will be Jane Austen's last novel, Persuasion. More details to follow. Check out the full Festival programme here:
www.mansionhouseyork.com/yorkgeorgian...
www.mansionhouseyork.com/yorkgeorgian...
April 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The first meeting will be held on Friday 8th August, coinciding with the 3rd Annual York Georgian Festival, venue TBC. The first book will be Jane Austen's last novel, Persuasion. More details to follow. Check out the full Festival programme here:
www.mansionhouseyork.com/yorkgeorgian...
www.mansionhouseyork.com/yorkgeorgian...
Coming to York in August 2025... I'm excited to announce that Jemima Hubberstey & I will be running a bi-monthly in-person book club on behalf of the York Georgian Society & all are welcome! More details below 👇 #18C #18thcentury #York #18thc
April 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Coming to York in August 2025... I'm excited to announce that Jemima Hubberstey & I will be running a bi-monthly in-person book club on behalf of the York Georgian Society & all are welcome! More details below 👇 #18C #18thcentury #York #18thc
Excited to contribute to this & share my perspective, as an 18th-century scholar, on the vexing questions of what Folk Horror is & where it might have come from...
#YorkLitFest #FolkHorror
#YorkLitFest #FolkHorror
March 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Excited to contribute to this & share my perspective, as an 18th-century scholar, on the vexing questions of what Folk Horror is & where it might have come from...
#YorkLitFest #FolkHorror
#YorkLitFest #FolkHorror
March 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Twf you re-read anything you wrote 3+ years ago:
"It is a crude production and I do not very willingly put it in the way of people whose good opinion, as a writer, I wish for."
- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797.
"It is a crude production and I do not very willingly put it in the way of people whose good opinion, as a writer, I wish for."
- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797.
March 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Twf you re-read anything you wrote 3+ years ago:
"It is a crude production and I do not very willingly put it in the way of people whose good opinion, as a writer, I wish for."
- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797.
"It is a crude production and I do not very willingly put it in the way of people whose good opinion, as a writer, I wish for."
- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797.
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
The latest installment of Coffee House Perspectives, the @bsecs.bsky.social podcast, is out now. Dr Alexis Wolf talks to Dr Alex Hobday about her new monograph, Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840:
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/RYpL5iTcXQb #18C #18thC
The latest installment of Coffee House Perspectives, the @bsecs.bsky.social podcast, is out now. Dr Alexis Wolf talks to Dr Alex Hobday about her new monograph, Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840:
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/RYpL5iTcXQb #18C #18thC
February 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
The latest installment of Coffee House Perspectives, the @bsecs.bsky.social podcast, is out now. Dr Alexis Wolf talks to Dr Alex Hobday about her new monograph, Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840:
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/RYpL5iTcXQb #18C #18thC
The latest installment of Coffee House Perspectives, the @bsecs.bsky.social podcast, is out now. Dr Alexis Wolf talks to Dr Alex Hobday about her new monograph, Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840:
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/RYpL5iTcXQb #18C #18thC
It's a great misdirect, beginning Rina's story in a 1960s commune, only for her to end up in a place where she's nostalgic for the relative normality of a cult compared to the weird, occult menace of Sorrow Spring. 1/2
#FolkHorrorFeb
#FolkHorrorFeb
February 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It's a great misdirect, beginning Rina's story in a 1960s commune, only for her to end up in a place where she's nostalgic for the relative normality of a cult compared to the weird, occult menace of Sorrow Spring. 1/2
#FolkHorrorFeb
#FolkHorrorFeb
"My mother's name was Eva, my other mother's name Alicia; I am Janet Evason... I love my daughter. I love my family (there are nineteen of us). I love my wife (Victoria). I've fought four duels. I've killed four times."
Reading this to teach in a few weeks. What an opening!!
Reading this to teach in a few weeks. What an opening!!
February 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"My mother's name was Eva, my other mother's name Alicia; I am Janet Evason... I love my daughter. I love my family (there are nineteen of us). I love my wife (Victoria). I've fought four duels. I've killed four times."
Reading this to teach in a few weeks. What an opening!!
Reading this to teach in a few weeks. What an opening!!
Just finished prepping my new second-year module for the English Literature degree at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social which will feature, amongst many others, lots of writers named Mary (Robinson, Wollstonecraft, Shelley), Ann Radcliffe & the anonymous 1808 novel The Woman of Colour. #18c #18thC
January 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Just finished prepping my new second-year module for the English Literature degree at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social which will feature, amongst many others, lots of writers named Mary (Robinson, Wollstonecraft, Shelley), Ann Radcliffe & the anonymous 1808 novel The Woman of Colour. #18c #18thC
"Tho' a few odd fellows will utter their sentiments in all places, yet much the greater part of mankind have enough of the courtier to accommodate their conversation to the taste & inclination of their superiors."
Book 2, Ch6. #AContinuation25
Book 2, Ch6. #AContinuation25
January 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Tho' a few odd fellows will utter their sentiments in all places, yet much the greater part of mankind have enough of the courtier to accommodate their conversation to the taste & inclination of their superiors."
Book 2, Ch6. #AContinuation25
Book 2, Ch6. #AContinuation25
I'll be talking about reading & thinking, & thinking about reading, at today's "Humanities Now!" Symposium, hosted by York St John University.
Featuring Sarah Fielding, Mary Wollstonecraft & Charles Ignatius Sancho.
#18c #18thC #teaching #Humanities
Featuring Sarah Fielding, Mary Wollstonecraft & Charles Ignatius Sancho.
#18c #18thC #teaching #Humanities
January 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I'll be talking about reading & thinking, & thinking about reading, at today's "Humanities Now!" Symposium, hosted by York St John University.
Featuring Sarah Fielding, Mary Wollstonecraft & Charles Ignatius Sancho.
#18c #18thC #teaching #Humanities
Featuring Sarah Fielding, Mary Wollstonecraft & Charles Ignatius Sancho.
#18c #18thC #teaching #Humanities
If you are a PGR student working on any aspect of 18th-Century Studies, then you should definitely consider submitting an application to the York Centre for 18th-Century Studies PG conference.
CFP dealine 31 Jan.
#18c #BSECS2025
CFP dealine 31 Jan.
#18c #BSECS2025
January 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you are a PGR student working on any aspect of 18th-Century Studies, then you should definitely consider submitting an application to the York Centre for 18th-Century Studies PG conference.
CFP dealine 31 Jan.
#18c #BSECS2025
CFP dealine 31 Jan.
#18c #BSECS2025
Thanks so much to everyone who came to our panel & for such generous questions & comments, during the discussion & afterwards 🙏
We will be working the panel up into a collection of essays, so if you're working on #18c satirical bodies & have an idea, please be in touch! #BSECS2025
We will be working the panel up into a collection of essays, so if you're working on #18c satirical bodies & have an idea, please be in touch! #BSECS2025
January 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Thanks so much to everyone who came to our panel & for such generous questions & comments, during the discussion & afterwards 🙏
We will be working the panel up into a collection of essays, so if you're working on #18c satirical bodies & have an idea, please be in touch! #BSECS2025
We will be working the panel up into a collection of essays, so if you're working on #18c satirical bodies & have an idea, please be in touch! #BSECS2025
This morning at #BSECS2025 I'll be joining a roundtable organised the newly minted Dr Amy Blaney titled "Reading Pedagogies: Engaging Students with 18th-Century Literature" SCR Parlour (Fellows' Staircase), 11.20-12.30 (Session 7 in the programme.
#18c #18thC
#18c #18thC
January 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This morning at #BSECS2025 I'll be joining a roundtable organised the newly minted Dr Amy Blaney titled "Reading Pedagogies: Engaging Students with 18th-Century Literature" SCR Parlour (Fellows' Staircase), 11.20-12.30 (Session 7 in the programme.
#18c #18thC
#18c #18thC
Snowmen out in force today!
January 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Snowmen out in force today!