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Dr Adam James Smith

Email:

a.smith3@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Humanities

Organisation:

York St John University

Address:

York St John University Lord Mayor's Walk York YO31 7EX

Country:

United Kingdom

Homepage:

https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/schools/humanities-religion--philosophy/staff-profiles/english-literature/adam-james-smith.html

Biography

Expertise:

Eighteenth-Century Literature, Satire, Eighteenth-Century Print Culture, Eighteenth-Century Political Culture, Newspaper Networks, Non-Fiction Prose

Job title:

Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Biography:

Dr Adam James Smith is an Associate Professor or English Literature at York St John University. Adam’s work explores the role played by cheap print in mediating the relationship between citizens and the state in the long eighteenth century, with particular interests in works of protest, propaganda and satire.

Qualifications:

PhD in English Literature, University of Sheffield (2010-2014). Thesis: 'A Certain Design': The Partisan Strategy of Joseph Addison's The Free-Holder (1715-1716) MA, Eighteenth-Century Studies [English Literature and History], University of Sheffield (2009-2010) BA (Hons), English Literature, University of Sheffield (2006-2009)

My Latest

Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836, Jones, Emrys and Stenke, Katarina (2023) Introduction: Impolite Periodicals. In: Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836, Jones, Emrys and Stenke, Katarina, (eds.) Impolite Periodicals. Bucknell University Press (In Press)
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2023) ‘We now prescribe, like doctors in despair’: The Satirist-as-Doctor Metaphor in Early Eighteenth-Century Print. In: Lawlor, Clark and Blackwood, Ashleigh, (eds.) Rewriting Medicine: Healthcare, Literature, Culture, 1660-1831. Cambridge University Press (Submitted)
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2022) “Our satirists prove such very slaughter-men”: The Character of the Satirist in Eighteenth-Century Print. In: Davies-Shuck, Montana and Buckley, Jennifer, (eds.) Conceptualising Character. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print . Palgrave (In Press)
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2023) Satire and Folk Horror. In: Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Johnson, Wayne, (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror. Routledge
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2023) “Discourses of a less pleasing nature”: Addison, Steele and Impoliteness After The Spectator. In: Jones, Emyrs, Stenke, Katarina and Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836, (eds.) Impolite Periodicals. Bucknell University Press (In Press)
Stenner, Rachel, Kramer, Kaley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0394-1554, Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836, Wilson, Georgina E. M., Saunders, Joe, Clayton, William, Young, Jennifer, Farmer, Alan B., Woodring, Benjamin, Durrant, Michael, Calsoni, Verônica and Johnson, Rosalind (2023) The People of Print: Seventeenth-Century England. Cambridge
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 and Garlick, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7257-0430 (2023) ‘A Green Parrot for a Good Speaker’: Writing with a Birds-eye View in Eliza Haywood’s The Parrot (1746). In: Mckay, Robert and McHugh, Susan, (eds.) Animal satire. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature . Palgrave, pp. 137-153
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2022) Bridgerton: the real 18th-century writers who used pseudonyms to stoke controversy. The Conversation.
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 and Garlick, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7257-0430 (2021) ‘A Green Parrot for a Good Speaker’: Writing with a Birds-eye View in Eliza Haywood’s The Parrot (1746). In: Mckay, Robert and McHugh, Susan, (eds.) Satire and Animals. Animal Studies . Palgrave (Submitted)
Stenner, Rachel, Kramer, Kaley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0394-1554 and Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836, eds. (2022) Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period. New Directions in Book History . Palgrave Macmillan

My Most Viewed

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1	Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate: Post-Structuralism and the Staggered Retirement of Fox Mulder	437	65
2	Titania McGrath: Twitter parody of ‘wokeness’ owes a lot to satirists of the 18th century	167	82
3	Property, Patriotism and Independence: The Figure of the Freeholder in Eighteenth-Century Partisan Print	138	118
4	Taking Tea with Joseph Addison: Virginia Woolf and the Eighteenth Century in Orlando (1928)	92	4
5	Echoes of Meaning: Cheap Print, Ephemerality, and the Digital Archive	85	55
6	Introduction: Print Culture, Agency, Regionality	77	6
7	The Newspaper, the Bookshop and the Radical Society: Joseph Gales’ Hartshead Press and the “Reading and Thinking People of Sheffield”.	75	9
8	Spitting Image: a warning from the ‘golden age’ of satire	70	50
9	The ‘Crazy Clock’ of York: Collapsing Time and Unstable Reality in James Montgomery Urban Topographic Poetry	70	24
10	‘A Green Parrot for a Good Speaker’: Writing with a Birds-eye View in Eliza Haywood’s The Parrot (1746)	69	1