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

  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

    Stephen Greenblatt, James Noggle, Courtney Weiss Smith

    Eleventh Edition, Volume C, Paperback, 2024

  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

    Stephen Greenblatt, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Julie Crawford, James Noggle, James Simpson

    Shorter Eleventh Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2024

  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

    Stephen Greenblatt, Julie Crawford, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, James Simpson, Katharine Eisaman Maus, James Noggle

    Eleventh Edition, Package 1: Volumes A, B, C, Paperback, 2024

    A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.
  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

    Stephen Greenblatt, Rachel Ablow, Julie Crawford, Eric Eisner, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, Aarthi Vadde, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Catherine Robson, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Jahan Ramazani, James Noggle, James Simpson

    Shorter Eleventh Edition, Volumes 1 & 2, Paperback, 2024

    A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.
  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

    Stephen Greenblatt, Julie Crawford, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, James Simpson, Katharine Eisaman Maus, James Noggle

    Eleventh Edition, Package 1: Volumes A, B, C, E Book

    A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.