Caroline Breashears

Biography

Caroline Breashears is professor of English at St. Lawrence University. Her publications include The Practical Morality of Life: Adam Smith, George Anne Bellamy and the Theatre (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) and numerous works on eighteenth-​century genre, paratexts, and Adam Smith.

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Signaling Smith’s System Through ‘By the Same Author’
Caroline Breashears
Signaling Smith’s System through “By the Same Author”

Caroline Breashears explains the importance of Adam Smith’s unusual placement of the “published by the same author” page of The Wealth of Nations.

Literature, Film, and Human Flourishing
Caroline Breashears
Literature, Film, and Human Flourishing—Essays in Memory of Paul A. Cantor

Caroline Breashears reviews Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism: Essays in Memory of Paul A. Cantor.

The Philosopher and the Actress
Caroline Breashears
The Philosopher and the Actress: Did George Anne Bellamy Influence the Final Edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments?

“Thou sweet dictator of the human breast, as soon as we lose sight of thee, we forfeit our happiness here as well as hereafter.”

—George Anne Bellamy (VI:74: italics original)