Courtney Weiss Smith

Courtney Weiss Smith (Ph.D. Washington Unversity), The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, is Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University and Associate Editor at History & Theory. Her first book, Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England (2016), won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for outstanding scholarship in eighteenth-century studies. She is currently writing Sound Stuff: Words in Enlightenment Philosophy and Poetics, a history of ideas about poetic sound (including rhyme, onomatopoeia, pun, and polyptoton).

Courtney Weiss Smith

Courtney Weiss Smith (Ph.D. Washington Unversity), The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, is Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University and Associate Editor at History & Theory. Her first book, Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England (2016), won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for outstanding scholarship in eighteenth-century studies. She is currently writing Sound Stuff: Words in Enlightenment Philosophy and Poetics, a history of ideas about poetic sound (including rhyme, onomatopoeia, pun, and polyptoton).

Books by Courtney Weiss Smith