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Dr Adam James Smith
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Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS). 18th-Century Co-Editor, Literature Compass. Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals. Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 13
Download our new student-led @yorkstjohn.bsky.social critical edition of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales for free, here:

blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical...

Featuring a critical introduction, annotated poems, example readings, timelines, a delightful Foreword by Prof Andy McInnes & a Preface by me.
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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 21d
It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer.

You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 21d
My essay is on Winifred Gales, the wife of the radical Sheffield printer, Joseph Gales, who apparently escaped from Pirates whilst fleeing across the Atlantic...
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 21d
People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct:

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
The People of Print
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - The People of Print
www.cambridge.org
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · Sep 8
#18thc #skystorians! Help! Was faux nudity a thing during Restoration masques or plays or early 18thC theatrical productions? Looking for context for a masq habit of a 'naked' Adam (he was wearing sarsinet) & trying to determine how shocking this actually would have been...
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Sep 9
@yalebooks.bsky.social are celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday by offering a 30% discount on their 'World of Jane Austen' books using discount code JA250 #skystorians #18thC
yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...
Austen 250 - The World of Jane Austen - Yale University Press London
30% off the listed prices - and free postage in the UK - on our selected World of Jane Austen books. Use the code JA250 when prompted in the checkout to
yalebooks.co.uk
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Megan Peiser @meganpeiser.bsky.social · Sep 11
Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fict...
www.press.jhu.edu
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Aug 20
Thrilled to be joining a digression of Sternean colleagues later in the year - I’ll be presenting a paper titled ‘’Travelling Is To Be Recncil’d To Mankind In General’ - An Early Reading of A Sentimental Journey’
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Jul 30
We are delighted to be co-hosting the Laurence Sterne Conference this year from 5th - 7th November 2025 at @sotauol.bsky.social🌍
Deadline for registration: 1st September
Deadline for proposals: 15th August
Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25
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The Laurence Sterne Conference 'Terraqueous Globe: Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne' from 5-7 Nov 2025 in the School of the Arts Library. Registration deadline 1/09/25, proposal deadline 15/08/25.
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Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social · Sep 2
Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project!

All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
Poster advertising talk with time, date and place details
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Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social · Aug 29
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨

EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration:

creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 18
Very nice!
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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · Aug 16
Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...

ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
www.oxforddnb.com
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 15
Thanks Robert!!
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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · Aug 14
Interesting student-led project (a model of its kind, I should think). Good to see many of the longer Lyrical Tales that I had to exclude from my Shearsman edition of MR, here available, in clear readable and annotated versions.
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 13
Download our new student-led @yorkstjohn.bsky.social critical edition of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales for free, here:

blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical...

Featuring a critical introduction, annotated poems, example readings, timelines, a delightful Foreword by Prof Andy McInnes & a Preface by me.
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 13
Download our new student-led @yorkstjohn.bsky.social critical edition of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales for free, here:

blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical...

Featuring a critical introduction, annotated poems, example readings, timelines, a delightful Foreword by Prof Andy McInnes & a Preface by me.
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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Aug 11
Delighted to be asked to write the foreword for the York St John University Critical Edition of Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales which you can now read here!
Read Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales - York St John University Critical Editions
Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales, A Modern Edition   Lyrical Tales YJSU Critical Edition    Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales, A Modern Edition  (fully accessible version) Lyrical Tales Accessible YJSU Criti...
blog.yorksj.ac.uk
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Jul 25
Now on the BARS Blog: CfP: 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century' - Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 2026 Conference

See all the details here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6071

Please share widely!!
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 7
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
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Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social · Aug 6
Still looking for others wanting to present at @bsecs.bsky.social 2026 and form a panel. Message me if interested by end of August 2025 though it might be that others have got in touch and a panel is formed by then so don’t delay! #18c #comfort #discomfort #skystorians
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Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social · Jul 31
Call for interested parties in a panel for @bsecs.bsky.social January 2026! Theme this year is Big/Small. My paper will focus on small comforts + large discomforts in 18th c. letter writing. Let me know if you are interested #18c @cecs-york.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 6
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
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Aug 5
CFP: 39th Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
9–11 April 2026, Philadelphia, USA

Papers are invited on any aspect of #C18th Scottish history, thought, & culture, especially the notable 250th anniversaries in 2026

Deadline: 10 Sept. Full details in ALT-text
CALL FOR PAPERS 39th Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 9–11 April 2026, Philadelphia, PA, USA ECSSS celebrates four decades as an affiliate society of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies by holding its annual conference with ASECS in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The site will be the centrally located Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown. On this occasion, as in the past, ECSSS will sponsor its own panels at the ASECS meeting. Papers are invited on any aspect of eighteenth-century Scottish history, thought, and culture, but we would particularly encourage proposals for papers and panels relating to the 250th anniversaries of relevant events that occurred in 1776, such as the role of Scots in the American Revolution (especially in regard to Philadelphia), the publication of the Wealth of Nations, and the death of David Hume. Details of the ECSSS-sponsored plenary speaker and the evening reception will follow in due course, along with information on any other aspects of the programme in which ECSSS are involved. Because the programme for the ASECS meeting goes to press at the beginning of October, we have to put together the ECSSS programme by the end of the summer. Please act quickly in order to help us organize the programme in time. Please email a title and brief abstract of your proposed 20-minute paper, along with a one-page CV, to Rachel Bani (rachel.bani@converse.edu) by 10 September 2025. Those submitting proposals for 3- or 4-paper panels should send the panel title and abstract as well as titles and abstracts of the individual papers and CVs of the presenters by the same deadline. Please ensure that any proposal include ‘2026 conference proposal’ in the email subject line.
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 4
Here are four books I recommend if you enjoyed my piece in @theconversation.com & would like to know more...

#18th #18C #18thcentury #JaneAusten
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 4
Thank you!
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 4
Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?
theconversation.com/jane-austen-...
Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?
Although many women writers were critiquing society in the 18th century, hardly any of them were considered satirists.
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 4
I'll make sure we sign post your edition at our launch event! 🙏
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 4
Hopefully our student edition will compliment yours nicely, which looks wonderful and which I'll definitely be ordering for our library!
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