Dr Adam James Smith

Zack Snyder's Robinson Crusoe
Sam Raimi's Castle of Otranto
Ben Wheatley's The Italian
Chad Staheldki's Caleb Williams
Greta Gerwig's Fantomina

Haha, just to clarify, I was imagining a nightmare scenario

If you're in York on Sunday 21 March about would like to hear a talk about the trouble 18th-century writers had trying to describe York as they found it, rather than as a relic of what it once was, then I have the perfect talk for you...

#18C #YorkLitFest #18thC @yorkstjohn.bsky.social

I wouldn't be surprised if for her next trick Emerald Fennell adapts Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, but tweaks the story and characters to turn Lovelace into a bashful audience friendly loveable rogue who uses safe words and is alright really.

#18c #WutheringHeights

In which we talk about the one film that has completely captured the discourse, that literally everyone is talking about rn...

...28 Years Later The Bone Temple.

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OF COURSE YOU DO!

Click below for an incredible programme of events from our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️

www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

I am very interested to know, that's wonderful news - thank you for passing that on! 🤩

Work begins today on the 3rd iteration of the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Critical Editions project, which this year sees students from our English Literature degree and MA in Publishing editing a new full accessible digital edition of the correspondence between Ignatius Sancho & Laurence Sterne #18c

This Valentine's Day...

Who tells the story of radical print?

A public lecture on Winifred Gales and the hidden labour behind Sheffield’s late-eighteenth-century radical press.

Sat 14 Feb | York Medical Society | £5

www.georgianyork.org.uk/what-s-on
#PrintHistory #WomenWriters #18C #18thC

An Author's Performance The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne. 784pp. Penguin. £10.99 / The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox. 464pp. Oxford University Press. £11.99

One of my undergraduate students, Oliver Lewis, has a Substack and he's written a piece about Laurence Sterne & Charlotte Lennox, & it's actually left my head spinning - what a remarkable, deeply thoughtful piece of writing:

open.substack.com/pub/oliverle...

#18C #18thC #18thCentury

January #Newbooks: "Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century" by editors Emrys D. Jones, @elementaladam.bsky.social, and Katarina Stenke, and "Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America" by Jerónimo Arellano.

To order: tinyurl.com/89yw6np6

🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨

Is The Housemaid satire?
What do The Traitors memes tell us?
How did the internet handle Stranger Things?

Also featuring Toast Man, buttered-toast confidence & Adam vs "cutlery" 🍞

Listen:
open.spotify.com/episode/0Rvo...

#StrangerThings #TheTraitors #thehousemaid

If be very interested to read these - both your review and your book on Chesterton, modernism & parody!

Satiric Modernism Published in Comedy Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

In disassociating satire from comedy... Rulo has demonstrated satire’s transhistorical ubiquity when understood as a deconstructivediscourse, rather than a comic device

My review of Kevin Rulo's Satiric Modernism is out now:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NIDWK...

#ComedyStudies #Modernism #Satire

Come along to the ALSE-UKI online seminar on 29 Jan, featuring a wide range of papers from contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literature & the Environment.

Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

#18thCentury #18C #18thC

This collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodical.

Available for pre-order here📚 buff.ly/pvnBBVb
@bucknellupress.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
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#BSECS2026
#18c

Gosh, that's beautiful, thank you for sharing, and my sincere condolences for your loss. He sounds like a remarkable individual.

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Had a great time in Oxford for my first #BSECS2026. Thanks to @elementaladam.bsky.social for having me on and chairing the panel ‘Bodies Politic, Bodies Satiric: Satirical Embodiment in Georgian Britain and Ireland’ where I talked all things Fielding, drink, and Jacobite!

Apparently ChatGPT thinks I'm earnest and pedantic, especially when discussing 19th-century novels... All this and more in the festive Smith & Waugh 🌲

#podcast #satire #humourstudies

Haunted by Persuasion: When Old Books Become Old Friends | Guest Host: Dr Adam J. Smith On 1 November, Rach left the following comment on my first Persuasion post: “I think there is such magic in going back to these books and reading them again.” Then, This Reading Life added: “I’ve a…

“They said we were crazy. They said we couldn't put HAUNTOLOGY inside of JANE AUSTEN. They were wrong.”

Here's my final post for The Classics Club #ReadingAusten2025 readalong, playfully proposing a hauntological reading of Persuasion:

theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/h...

#JaneAusten

"To take [Poe] with more than a certain degree of seriousness is to lack seriousness one's self."

Henry James on Edgar Allen Poe.

#19C #EdgarAllenPoe #HenryJames

"There is no bearing the driveling idiotism of the Mankin"

Lord Byron on the "P*ss a bed poetry" of "Johnny Keats"

#18C #19C #Romanticism

Jane Austen perfected the love story – but kept her own independence In the second episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail, we speak to Austen experts about her views on love, and the role of romance in Pride & Prejudice.

“The more I read Austen, the more I feel that all of the books are really about how to read and understand and interpret the world.”

I love contributing to Jane Austen's Paper Trail, alongside esteemed colleagues Meg Kobza & Octavia Cox:

theconversation.com/jane-austen-... #18thC #18C #JaneAusten

We so much enjoyed talking to Leigh about this delightful novel, the state of satiric literacy, what BookTok is doing to the publishing industry & the ways we read & the best way to celebrate Halloween 👻

#halloween #books #authorinterview #satire

"When it comes to Jane, so many images have been danced before us.. The effect of all of them together is to make us read novels that aren't actually there." - Helena Kelly

Glorious meeting of the York Georgian Book Club, following a brill lecture by Lizzie Rogers!

#18C #18thCentury #JaneAusten

This may be of interest to @sharpnews.bsky.social? ☝️

We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP

@cecs-york.bsky.social @cecspgforum.bsky.social This might be of interest to your members? ☝🏻

The People of Print | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

The book is also available to buy in paperback and as an eBook at the bargain price of £14.99: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...