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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)

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Dr Anna Clark@drannaclark.bsky.social · 3w ago

The power of laughter: Thomas Rowlandson, English caricaturist, satirised absurdities of Georgian England, born #OTD 1756. Doctor Convex & Lady Concave 1802; A Little Tighter 1791; A Little Bigger 1791: coloured etchings. Royal Collection Trust

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Dr Adam James Smith@elementaladam.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm proud to have smuggled a surprising amount of 18th-century content into the inaugural episode of The Hauntology Podcast, in which I appear as a guest alongside my esteemed colleague Robert Edgar 👻 substack.com/@thehauntolo... #18c #18thCentury #Hauntology

The Hauntology Podcast Episode 1 - What Is Hauntology?

For our first episode, some of us have gathered to talk about why we wanted to make this podcast in the first place, and ask the simple yet deceptively tricky question “What is hauntology?”

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Benjamin Casey@benjamin-casey.bsky.social · last mo.

Had a blast presenting at @cecs-york.bsky.social ‘Radical print symposium’ in York. Thanks to @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social, @elementaladam.bsky.social and Sarah Griffin @uoyborthwick.bsky.social for organising the event!

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York@cecs-york.bsky.social · last mo.

On 1 July, we had a wonderful time at our Radical Print symposium, co-organized by CECS director Prof Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social, CECS friend Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and Sarah Griffin, special collections librarian @uoyborthwick.bsky.social. 1/3

Conference delegates in the foyer of Heslington Hall, shown from the top of the central staircase.
Dr Adam James Smith@elementaladam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think McKenzie Crooke should run #DoctorWho for two short seasons, small scale but creepy and magical in a cozy folk horror kind of way, with a beguiling bohemian doctor who is somehow both charming and awkward at the same time. And the Doctor should have a steampunky gothic vibe.

Benjamin Casey@benjamin-casey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Delighted to be speaking at this symposium in York next month. A fascinating theme and a terrific lineup. My paper examines how lawyers and doctors were caricatured in Georgian Dublin! See the🧵for the full schedule!

Dr Adam James Smith@elementaladam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨RADICAL PRINT CULTURE SYMPOSIUM 🚨 The Programme is now live (see 🧵), and the symposium will also feature two amazing keynote speakers, a print exhibition and a handling workshop. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Uncanny to find this irascible aside about review criticism in William Hazlitt's Lectures on the Elizabethan Age: now "we contrive even to read by proxy". Seems like he foresees (in 1820!) our worries about the age of AI when he links "the Millennium of criticism" with "the euthanasia of thought".

“We have lost the art of reading, or the privilege of writing, voluminously, since the days of Addison. Learning no longer weaves the interminable page with patient drudgery, nor ignorance pores over it with implicit faith. As authors multiply in number, books diminish in size; we cannot now, as formerly, swallow libraries whole in a single folio: solid quarto has given place to slender duodecimo, and the dingy letter-press contracts its dimensions, and retreats before the white, unsullied, faultless margin. Modern authorship is become a species of stenography: we contrive even to read by proxy. We skim the cream of prose without any trouble; we get at the quintessence of poetry without loss of time. The staple commodity, the coarse, heavy, dirty, unwieldy bullion of books is driven out of the market of learning, and the intercourse of the literary world is carried on, and the credit of the great capitalists sustained by the flimsy circulating medium of magazines and reviews. Those who are chiefly concerned in catering for the taste of others, and serving up critical opinions in a compendious, elegant, and portable form, are not forgetful of themselves: they are not scrupulously solicitous, idly inquisitive about[ “the real merits, the bona fide contents of the works they are deputed to appraise and value, any more than the reading public who employ them. They look no farther for the contents of the work than the title page, and pronounce a peremptory decision on its merits or defects by a glance at the name and party of the writer. This state of polite letters seems to admit of improvement in only one respect, which is to go a step further, and write for the amusement and edification of the world, accounts of works that were never either written or read at all, and to cry up or abuse the authors by name, although they have no existence but in the critic’s invention. This would save a great deal of labour in vain: anonymous critics might pounce upon the defenceless …
Dr Adam James Smith@elementaladam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Meet the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social students working on this year's installment of the YSJU Critical Editions Project, a new fully accessible digital edition of the correspondence between Charles Ignatius Sancho & Laurence Sterne: blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical... #18C

About The Team (2026) - York St John University Critical Editions

(Photo by Amy Craghill) Project Director Dr Adam James Smith Adam is an Associate Professor of English Literature at York St John University. His work explores the role played by … Continue reading "A...

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Rachel Delman@racheldelman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Proud to have played a key role in bringing this fascinating project to fruition, and excited to see the implications of the research for heritage interpretation and practice over the coming year(s).

Faculty of History, University of Oxford@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are excited to announce Steven Gunn's new AHRC Curiosity project ‘Life and Death in Tudor Prisons’, which will work with heritage partners at Oxford Castle & Prison and Lincoln Castle to transform our understanding of Tudor imprisonment. @oxhumanities.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3fezm52k