Dr Adam James Smith

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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 and Garlick, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7257-0430 (2022) ‘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 (In Press)
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
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 and Waugh, Jo (2021) The Prince – the great tradition of satirising the royal family is under threat as they become more ‘human’. The Conversation.
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2021) Taking Tea with Joseph Addison: Virginia Woolf and the Eighteenth Century in Orlando (1928). 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. (In Press)
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2022) The Newspaper, the Bookshop and the Radical Society: Joseph Gales’ Hartshead Press and the “Reading and Thinking People of Sheffield”. In: Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836, Stenner, Rachel and Kramer, Kaley, (eds.) Print Culture, Agency and Regionality in the Handpress Era. New Directions in Book History . Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 71-89
Stenner, Rachel and Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2022) Introduction: Print Culture, Agency, Regionality. In: Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836, Stenner, Rachel and Kramer, Kaley, (eds.) Print Culture, Agency and Regionality in the Handpress Era. New Directions in Book History . Palgrave Macmillan
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2021) The ‘Crazy Clock’ of York: Collapsing Time and Unstable Reality in James Montgomery Urban Topographic Poetry. In: Evans, Anne-Marie and Kramer, Kaley, (eds.) Time, The City and the Literary Imagination. Literary Urban Studies . Palgrave, pp. 15-32
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2020) Echoes of Meaning: Cheap Print, Ephemerality, and the Digital Archive. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 33 (1). pp. 10-12.

My Most Viewed

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1	Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate: Post-Structuralism and the Staggered Retirement of Fox Mulder	358	42
2	Titania McGrath: Twitter parody of ‘wokeness’ owes a lot to satirists of the 18th century	139	63
3	Property, Patriotism and Independence: The Figure of the Freeholder in Eighteenth-Century Partisan Print	112	59
4	Echoes of Meaning: Cheap Print, Ephemerality, and the Digital Archive	60	30
5	Taking Tea with Joseph Addison: Virginia Woolf and the Eighteenth Century in Orlando (1928)	59	4
6	Introduction: Print Culture, Agency, Regionality	55	4
7	Spitting Image: a warning from the ‘golden age’ of satire	53	36
8	Brexit Britain is Easy Fodder for Satirists: But They Should Learn from Eighteenth-Century Masters How to do it Properly.	50	59
9	‘How Proudly Shines the Crazy Clock’: Temporal Displacement and the Miasma of York in the Urban Topographic Poetry of James Montgomery	49	1
10	The ‘Crazy Clock’ of York: Collapsing Time and Unstable Reality in James Montgomery Urban Topographic Poetry	44	11