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Smith, Adam

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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2025) Malicious Conversations: Johnsonian Hating and Early Eighteenth-Century Satire. Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies. (In Press)
Smith, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836, Stenner, Rachel and Kramer, Kaley, eds. (2025) The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge University Press
Smith, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2025) “We both look, but we see differently.” History, Landscape and Eighteenth-Century Folk in Alan Garner’s Thursbitch (2003). In: Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Marland, John and Johnson, Wayne, (eds.) Alan Garner and the Work of Time. Manchester University Press (In Press)
Smith, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2026) From Policy Paradox to Pedagogical Practice: Accessibility, Experiential Learning, and the Student-Led Eighteenth-Century Critical Edition. Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies. (In Press)
Smith, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 and Barnett-Woods, Victoria (2025) “You must find eyes to read this book—head and heart” : Disrupting Single Stories in Teaching Sancho’s Letters and The Woman of Colour. Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies. (In Press)
Smith, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2025) Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one? The Conversation.
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2025) “It just tastes better than other meat…”: Satire and cannibalism after Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal (1729). European Journal of Humour Research, 13 (1). pp. 91-103.
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 and Barnett-Woods, Victoria (2024) “My chief pleasure has been books”: On Teaching Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 36 (4). pp. 637-644.
Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 (2024) Bridgerton: the real 18th-century women penning satirical periodicals to bite back at society. The Conversation.
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)

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	‘A Green Parrot for a Good Speaker’: Writing with a Birds-eye View in Eliza Haywood’s The Parrot (1746)	899	2
2	Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate: Post-Structuralism and the Staggered Retirement of Fox Mulder	625	142
3	“It just tastes better than other meat…”: Satire and cannibalism after Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal (1729)	264	119
4	Titania McGrath: Twitter parody of ‘wokeness’ owes a lot to satirists of the 18th century	259	114
5	Property, Patriotism and Independence: The Figure of the Freeholder in Eighteenth-Century Partisan Print	253	156
6	‘A Green Parrot for a Good Speaker’: Writing with a Birds-eye View in Eliza Haywood’s The Parrot (1746)	232	32
7	‘We now prescribe, like doctors in despair’: The Satirist-as-Doctor Metaphor in Early Eighteenth-Century Print	228
8	Taking Tea with Joseph Addison: Virginia Woolf and the Eighteenth Century in Orlando (1928)	211	5
9	The Newspaper, the Bookshop and the Radical Society: Joseph Gales’ Hartshead Press and the “Reading and Thinking People of Sheffield”.	204	94
10	Echoes of Meaning: Cheap Print, Ephemerality, and the Digital Archive	186	94