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Reid, Hugh

Awards:

Contract Instructor Teaching Award, 2019

Contract Instructor Teaching Award, 2009 – 2010

杏吧原创 University Students Association Teaching Excellence Award, 1994 – 1995

Research Interests:

I am particularly interested in the eighteenth century book trade and especially in book subscription lists and what they can tell us about the reading public at the time. I am the current Advisory Editor for New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century. As well, I have an abiding interest in the Wartons.

Publications:

Books

The Nature and Uses of Eighteenth Century Book Subscription Lists, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

Chapters in Books

鈥 鈥淗azardous purchasing almost anything鈥: The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons, Subscription Lists, and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade鈥 in The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century, eds. Daniel J. Ennis, E. Joe Johnson. (Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2022)  184-196.

鈥淥 the Roast Beef of Olde England.  The Hogarthian Vision of the Wartons鈥  in Comedy.  Essays in Honour of Peter Dixon.  (London, 1993) 182-200.

鈥 鈥楾he Want of a Closer Union鈥︹:  The Friendship of Samuel Johnson and Joseph Warton鈥  in The Age of Johnson 9 (New York, 1998) 133-43.

Forthcoming publications:

鈥淗azardous purchasing almost anything鈥: The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons, Subscription Lists and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade in Essays in Honour of Annibel Jenkins (University of Delaware Press).

Contributions to Research Volumes and Papers in Refereed Journals

A Review of Mind, Body, Motion, Matter:  Eighteenth Century British and French Literary Perspectives, eds. Mary Helen McMurray and Alison Conway.  University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 87 Issue 3, Summer 2018, pp. 476-478.

鈥淩e-Dating of an Important Joseph Warton Letter鈥, Notes and Queries, June 2015, 301-2.

Articles on Thomas Warton the elder, Thomas Warton the younger, Joseph Warton, Anthony Champion (4) in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, September 2004.

“The Printing of Joseph Warton’s Odes, 1746.” Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, June 1990, 151-57. Reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 118 (WCLC118) pp. 358-60, Lynn Zott (ed.), pub. Gale, 2003.

鈥淛oseph Warton, Joshua Reynolds, and the New College Window.鈥  New College Record (1983)  13-15.

鈥淛enny:  The Fourth Warton.鈥  Notes and Queries, March, 1986, 84-94.

A review of John Vance, Joseph and Thomas Warton (Twayne English Authors Series, pp.152.  Notes and Queries, September 1986, 417-8.

鈥淎 Note on James Grainger鈥檚 鈥極de To Solitude鈥.鈥  Notes and Queries, December 1986, 518.

鈥淎 Probable Addition to the Poetic Works of Joseph Warton.鈥  Review of English Studies, November `1987, 526-29.

鈥淥 the Roast Beef of Olde England.  The Hogarthian Vision of the Wartons鈥  in Comedy.  Essays in Honour of Peter Dixon.  (London, 1993) 182-200.

鈥 鈥楾he Want of a Closer Union…鈥:  The Friendship of Samuel Johnson and Joseph Warton鈥  in The Age of Johnson 9 (New York, 1998) 133-43.

鈥淭hose beck鈥檔ing ghost(s):  The Subscribers to Thomas Warton鈥檚 Poems (1748).鈥&苍产蝉辫; English Studies in Canada 25 (1999):  277-94.

Papers Presented:

鈥 Hazardous purchasing anything鈥: The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons, Subscription Lists, and the Eighteenth Century Book Trade.鈥 Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 27 February 鈥 1 March 2014.

The Oxford Sausage: a corrective to 鈥楢ll such Persons, therefore, as grown thin, by too much study.鈥 Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Charleston, South Carolina, 27 Feb.- 2 March 2013.

Chair at the same conference: 鈥淭he Novel As Instruction.鈥

鈥淭he Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Poets Laureate of the Eighteenth Century鈥. Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Decatur, Georgia, 1 鈥 3 March, 2012.

Chair at the same conference:  鈥淪wift鈥檚 Legacy.鈥

鈥淭eaching a Course on Eighteenth Century Book Subscription Lists鈥.  Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, 3 鈥 5 March 2011.

鈥 鈥楴o man but a blockhead鈥:  Books Purchased by Subscription by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell鈥.  Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City Tennessee, 18-20 February 23, 2010.

鈥淭he Nature and Uses of  Eighteenth Century Book Subscription Lists鈥. Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Charlotte, North Carolina (hosted by Winthrop University), 5-7 March 2009.

Chair at the same conference: 鈥淩eputation and Decption鈥.

鈥 鈥楾here is some spirit in these lines鈥:  The Influence of the Wartons on the Sonnet Revival in the Eighteenth Century鈥.  Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 14-17 February 2008.

Chair at the same conference: 鈥淒ialectics鈥.

鈥 鈥—awak鈥檇, inspir鈥檇, amaz鈥檇, I mark鈥檇 another world鈥:  The Influence of the Wartons on the Poets of the 1780s鈥.  American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, 22-25 March 2007.

鈥淛ames Oglethorpe, Bibliophile and Friend.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 2-4 March, 2006.

鈥淛oseph Warton鈥檚 Letters to Mary Morgan鈥.  Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Coastal Carolina University, 3-5 March 2005.

Chair at the same conference:  鈥淏ooks and Other Objects.鈥

鈥 鈥淎nd have you nothing to send me? 鈥:  The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons and the Dodsleys and What It Tells Us 杏吧原创 the Eighteenth Century Book Trade鈥.  Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Savannah, Georgia, 4- 6 March 2004.

Chair at the same conference:  鈥淭he Sensational Antonio Salieri.鈥

鈥 鈥楩rom Wit to Beef, Shakespeare to the Shambles鈥:  The Comic Poetry of the Wartons.  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of South Carolina, 27 February-1 March 2003.

Chair at same conference:  鈥淪wift:  Saint or Sinner?鈥

鈥  鈥楤alm of my Cares, Sweet Solace of my Toils.  Hail Juice benignant!鈥:  Beer and Its Role in the Eighteenth Century.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 28 February-2 March 2002.

Chair at the same conference:  鈥淏ritish Society and Politics.鈥

鈥  鈥淭was a good dinner to be sure;  but not a dinner to invite a man to鈥—鈥榃e had for dinner鈥︹:  Parson Woodforde, Samuel Johnson and the Appetite of the Age.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Alabama Huntsville, 1-3 March 2001.

Chair at the same conference:  鈥淢aterial Publication in the Public Sphere.鈥

鈥  鈥楬azardous purchasing anything鈥:  The Wartons and Their Publishers.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Savannah, Georgia, 2-4March 2000.

Chair at the same conference:  鈥淣ew Interpretations of Restoration Drama.鈥

鈥  鈥淗ow far that little candle throws its beams鈥:  The Influence of the Wartons on Eighteenth Century Shakespearean Thought.鈥 Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 4-6 March 1999.

Chair at the same conference:  鈥淏ringing the Eighteenth Century to Life.鈥

鈥 鈥楾is the good reader that makes the good book鈥:  Early Eighteenth Century Female Readers and What They Read.鈥  Southeastern Society For Eighteenth Century Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, 5-7 March1998.

Chair at the same conference:  鈥淎spects of the theatre.鈥

鈥 鈥榃hat beck鈥檔ing ghost[s]鈥︹  The Subscribers to Thomas Warton鈥檚 Poems on Several Occasions.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 29 February-2 March 1996.

鈥淧ope, Profits, and Women:  The Female Subscribers to the Iliad and the Odyssey.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of South Alabama, Mobile, 15-19 February 1995.

Chair at the same conference:  鈥淔amily Matters.鈥.

鈥淭he Female Subscribers to Pope鈥檚 Home.鈥 Northeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Fordham University, Lincoln Centre, New York City, 6-9 October 1994.

鈥淭he ESP Project:   Its Nature and Applications.鈥  American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Charleston, South Carolina, 9-13 March 1994 (with Ken Carpenter of Harvard).

鈥淥 the Roast Beef of Olde England:  The Hogarthian Vision of the Wartons.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 4-6 March 1993.

鈥 鈥楤ringing poetry back into its right channel鈥:  the years 1744-56 and their influence.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Wake Forest University, 27-29 February 1992.

鈥淪hakespearean Criticism in the British Magazine.鈥  Southeastern American Society  for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 28 February,1,2 March 1991.

鈥 鈥楾he want of a closer union鈥:  The Samuel Johnson/Joseph Warton Friendship.鈥  DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth Century Studies, University of South Florida, 14-16 February 1991.

鈥淭he Printing of Joseph Warton鈥檚 Odes 1746-47.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Society, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, March, 1989.

Chair at the same conference, 鈥淔amily and Marriage in Literature.鈥

鈥淓diting the Poetry of the Wartons.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, March, 1987.

鈥淛oseph Warton and the Changing Poetic Taste of the Mid-Eighteenth Century.鈥  Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Ottawa, October 1986.

鈥淛oseph Warton鈥檚 criticism of Shakespeare in the Adventurer.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of South Carolina, March 1986.

鈥淟iterature, Politics, and Society in Joseph Warton鈥檚 Letters.鈥  Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Guelph, 17-20 October 1985.

鈥淲arton, Collins, and Johnson:  The Friendship and 鈥楧issipation鈥 of Early Life.鈥  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Georgia, Athens,  Georgia, 7-9 March 1985.

Graduate Courses taught:

English 5402: 鈥淧ope, Swift, and Johnson: Depictions of Gender and Friendship鈥. This course was a 1999 finalist (one of 6 and the only Canadian) in the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Teaching Competition.

English 5402: A Course on Eighteenth Century Book Subscription Lists

Supervisions:

I have supervised one MA thesis:

Matt Minter, 鈥淒isinterested Benevolent Sensibility in Henry MacKenzie鈥檚 The man of Feeling: Reconsidering the Role of Shaftesbury鈥檚 Sentimental Philosphy in the Rise of the Sentimental Novel,鈥 1998-1999, M.A. Thesis.

And a number of MA Research Essays, including:

Kristen Schoenhals, 鈥 鈥楾o raise the Thoughts, and moralize the Mind鈥 : Intelligence, Virtue and Femininity in the Poetry of Elizabeth Carter,鈥 1997-1998, M.A. Research Essay.