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\n \n \n \n <\/h1>\n\n \n <\/header>\n\n\n\n

Awards:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Contract Instructor Teaching Award, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contract Instructor Teaching Award<\/em>, 2009 – 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carleton University Students Association Teaching Excellence Award<\/em>, 1994 – 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>. As well, I have an abiding interest in the Wartons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nature and Uses of Eighteenth Century Book Subscription Lists<\/span>, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapters in Books<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u201cHazardous purchasing almost anything\u201d: The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons, Subscription Lists, and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade\u201d in The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century<\/em>, eds. Daniel J. Ennis, E. Joe Johnson. (Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2022)  184-196.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cO the Roast Beef of Olde England.  The Hogarthian Vision of the Wartons\u201d  in Comedy.  Essays in Honour of Peter Dixon<\/em>.  (London, 1993) 182-200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2018The Want of a Closer Union\u2026\u2019:  The Friendship of Samuel Johnson and Joseph Warton\u201d  in The Age of Johnson<\/em> 9 (New York, 1998) 133-43.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forthcoming publications:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHazardous purchasing almost anything\u201d: The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons, Subscription Lists and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade in Essays in Honour of Annibel Jenkins<\/em> (University of Delaware Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributions to Research Volumes and Papers in Refereed Journals<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

\u201cRe-Dating of an Important Joseph Warton Letter\u201d, Notes and Queries, <\/em>June 2015, 301-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles on Thomas Warton the elder, Thomas Warton the younger, Joseph Warton, Anthony Champion (4) in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, September 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJoseph Warton, Joshua Reynolds, and the New College Window.\u201d  New College Record<\/em> (1983)  13-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJenny:  The Fourth Warton.\u201d  Notes and Queries<\/em>, March, 1986, 84-94.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A review of John Vance, Joseph and Thomas Warton<\/em> (Twayne English Authors Series, pp.152.  Notes and Queries<\/em>, September 1986, 417-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Note on James Grainger\u2019s \u2018Ode To Solitude\u2019.\u201d  Notes and Queries<\/em>, December 1986, 518.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Probable Addition to the Poetic Works of Joseph Warton.\u201d  Review of English Studies<\/em>, November `1987, 526-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cO the Roast Beef of Olde England.  The Hogarthian Vision of the Wartons\u201d  in Comedy.  Essays in Honour of Peter Dixon<\/em>.  (London, 1993) 182-200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2018The Want of a Closer Union…\u2019:  The Friendship of Samuel Johnson and Joseph Warton\u201d  in The Age of Johnson<\/em> 9 (New York, 1998) 133-43.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose beck\u2019ning ghost(s):  The Subscribers to Thomas Warton\u2019s Poems<\/em> (1748).\u201d  English Studies in Canada<\/em> 25 (1999):  277-94.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papers Presented:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201c Hazardous purchasing anything\u2019: The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons, Subscription Lists, and the Eighteenth Century Book Trade.\u201d Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 27 February \u2013 1 March 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Oxford Sausage<\/em>: a corrective to \u2018All such Persons, therefore, as grown thin, by too much study.\u201d Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Charleston, South Carolina, 27 Feb.- 2 March 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference: \u201cThe Novel As Instruction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Poets Laureate of the Eighteenth Century\u201d. Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Decatur, Georgia, 1 \u2013 3 March, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference:  \u201cSwift\u2019s Legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTeaching a Course on Eighteenth Century Book Subscription Lists\u201d.  Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, 3 \u2013 5 March 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2018No man but a blockhead\u2019:  Books Purchased by Subscription by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell\u201d.  Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City Tennessee, 18-20 February 23, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Nature and Uses of  Eighteenth Century Book Subscription Lists\u201d. Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Charlotte, North Carolina (hosted by Winthrop University), 5-7 March 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference: \u201cReputation and Decption\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2018There is some spirit in these lines\u2019:  The Influence of the Wartons on the Sonnet Revival in the Eighteenth Century\u201d.  Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 14-17 February 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference: \u201cDialectics\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2018—awak\u2019d, inspir\u2019d, amaz\u2019d, I mark\u2019d another world\u2019:  The Influence of the Wartons on the Poets of the 1780s\u2019.  American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, 22-25 March 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJames Oglethorpe, Bibliophile and Friend.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 2-4 March, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJoseph Warton\u2019s Letters to Mary Morgan\u201d.  Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Coastal Carolina University, 3-5 March 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference:  \u201cBooks and Other Objects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018 \u201cAnd have you nothing to send me? \u201d:  The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons and the Dodsleys and What It Tells Us About the Eighteenth Century Book Trade\u201d.  Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Savannah, Georgia, 4- 6 March 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference:  \u201cThe Sensational Antonio Salieri.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2018From Wit to Beef, Shakespeare to the Shambles\u201d:  The Comic Poetry of the Wartons.  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of South Carolina, 27 February-1 March 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at same conference:  \u201cSwift:  Saint or Sinner?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c  \u2018Balm of my Cares, Sweet Solace of my Toils.  Hail Juice benignant!\u2019:  Beer and Its Role in the Eighteenth Century.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 28 February-2 March 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference:  \u201cBritish Society and Politics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c  \u201cTwas a good dinner to be sure;  but not a dinner to invite a man to\u2019—\u2018We had for dinner\u2026\u2019:  Parson Woodforde, Samuel Johnson and the Appetite of the Age.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Alabama Huntsville, 1-3 March 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference:  \u201cMaterial Publication in the Public Sphere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c  \u2018Hazardous purchasing anything\u2019:  The Wartons and Their Publishers.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Savannah, Georgia, 2-4March 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference:  \u201cNew Interpretations of Restoration Drama.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c  \u201cHow far that little candle throws its beams\u2019:  The Influence of the Wartons on Eighteenth Century Shakespearean Thought.\u201d Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 4-6 March 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference:  \u201cBringing the Eighteenth Century to Life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2018Tis the good reader that makes the good book\u2019:  Early Eighteenth Century Female Readers and What They Read.\u201d  Southeastern Society For Eighteenth Century Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, 5-7 March1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference:  \u201cAspects of the theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2018What beck\u2019ning ghost[s]\u2026\u2019  The Subscribers to Thomas Warton\u2019s Poems on Several Occasions<\/em>.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 29 February-2 March 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPope, Profits, and Women:  The Female Subscribers to the Iliad<\/em> and the Odyssey<\/em>.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of South Alabama, Mobile, 15-19 February 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference:  \u201cFamily Matters.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Female Subscribers to Pope\u2019s Home.\u201d Northeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Fordham University, Lincoln Centre, New York City, 6-9 October 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ESP Project:   Its Nature and Applications.\u201d  American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Charleston, South Carolina, 9-13 March 1994 (with Ken Carpenter of Harvard).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cO the Roast Beef of Olde England:  The Hogarthian Vision of the Wartons.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 4-6 March 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2018Bringing poetry back into its right channel\u2019:  the years 1744-56 and their influence.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Wake Forest University, 27-29 February 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShakespearean Criticism in the British Magazine<\/em>.\u201d  Southeastern American Society  for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 28 February,1,2 March 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2018The want of a closer union\u2019:  The Samuel Johnson\/Joseph Warton Friendship.\u201d  DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth Century Studies, University of South Florida, 14-16 February 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Printing of Joseph Warton\u2019s Odes<\/em> 1746-47.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Society, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, March, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair at the same conference, \u201cFamily and Marriage in Literature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEditing the Poetry of the Wartons.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, March, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJoseph Warton and the Changing Poetic Taste of the Mid-Eighteenth Century.\u201d  Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Ottawa, October 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJoseph Warton\u2019s criticism of Shakespeare in the Adventurer<\/em>.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of South Carolina, March 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLiterature, Politics, and Society in Joseph Warton\u2019s Letters.\u201d  Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Guelph, 17-20 October 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWarton, Collins, and Johnson:  The Friendship and \u2018Dissipation\u2019 of Early Life.\u201d  Southeastern Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Georgia, Athens,  Georgia, 7-9 March 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Courses taught:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

English 5402: \u201cPope, Swift, and Johnson: Depictions of Gender and Friendship\u201d. This course was a 1999 finalist (one of 6 and the only Canadian) in the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Teaching Competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

English 5402: A Course on Eighteenth Century Book Subscription Lists<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisions:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I have supervised one MA thesis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Minter, \u201cDisinterested Benevolent Sensibility in Henry MacKenzie\u2019s The man of Feeling: Reconsidering the Role of Shaftesbury\u2019s Sentimental Philosphy in the Rise of the Sentimental Novel,\u201d 1998-1999, M.A. Thesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a number of MA Research Essays, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kristen Schoenhals, \u201c \u2018To raise the Thoughts, and moralize the Mind\u2019 : Intelligence, Virtue and Femininity in the Poetry of Elizabeth Carter,\u201d 1997-1998, M.A. Research Essay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19269,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Hugh","cu_people_last_name":"Reid","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-363","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"B.A. Honours, M.A.(Carleton), B.Ed. (Queen's) Ph.D. (London)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"hugh_reid@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2318","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23214,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/363\/revisions\/23214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}