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Rewriting the Mechanic In the eighteenth century, “technology” didn’t name a particular device or a process. It referred instead to written accounts of the mechanical arts, a now-obsolete category encompassing the wide rang...

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West, Emily M. Rewriting the Mechanic: Text, Technology, and the Body in the Eighteenth Century, Bucknell University Press, 2027.

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Jennifer Buckley. Periodicals, Fiction and the Novel, 1700–1760: Ecologies of Print Jennifer Buckley’s exciting monograph seeks to develop a study of the eighteenth-century periodical, particularly what she defines as the ‘essay-periodical

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Amy Wilcockson, Jennifer Buckley. Periodicals, Fiction and the Novel, 1700–1760: Ecologies of Print, The Review of English Studies, 2026;, hgag003, doi.org/10.1093/res/...

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A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence Amazon.com: A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence: 9780300260168: Mierowsky, Marc: Libros

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Mierowsky, Marc. A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence. Yale University Press, 2026.

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The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities

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Cole, Lucinda. "The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities." Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Springer, 2025. 1-243.

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Yet I Alive! Decision-Making during Pandemics in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) ABSTRACT. This paper examines Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year through the lens of Herbert Simon’s decision-making theory, which outlines three sequential phases: intelligence, design, and ...

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Deyab, Mohammad Shaaban, Asmaa Abdelsalam Elshikh, and Ebtihal Elshaikh. "Yet I Alive! Decision-Making during Pandemics in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 27.4 (2025): 512-527.

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VANWAGONER, BENJAMIN D. Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 2020, pp. 207–11.

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To Be Continued – Forms of Narrative Continuation The peer-reviewed Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English lan...

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Dorson, James. "Serial Singularity: Reading for the Project." To Be Continued–Forms of Narrative Continuation 89 (2025): 83.

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Hamlin, Christopher. "Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in 18th-Century Britain. By Kevin Siena." The Journal of Modern History, vol. 92, no. 4, 2020, pp. 933–35. JSTOR.

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A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722 Published in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Palmer, Russell, et al. "A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-14.

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Journals of the Plague Years: Flesh Markets and Easterly Winds Between 1711 and 1769, more than 200 million cattle in Western Europe succumbed to a variety of diseases. A growing international cattle trade ensured that pandemics became transnational epidemiologic...

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Cole, Lucinda. "Journals of the Plague Years: Flesh Markets and Easterly Winds." The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. 93-132.

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This essay began its life a long time ago, in conversation with an @elccprogramme.bsky.social Summer Scholar, Tuioleloto Laura Toailoa. It’s taken years to bring some of that early thinking to fruition.

Thank you so much to the Defoe Society for this award

Hessell abstract

Congratulations to Nikki Hessell, whose essay "Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation," has been selected as the winner of this year's Maximillian E. Novak Essay Prize. Abstract below:
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Pree, Nathanael. "Contagion and Confinement: Re-reading Michel Foucault alongside José Saramago and Daniel Defoe". World Literature in and for Pandemic Times, 2025, pp. 46-62.

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Gehling excerpt

New article, “Revisiting Defoe’s Library Catalogue,” by Angela Gehling in Digital Defoe Vol. 16 (2025). Article excerpt 👇
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Lew abstract

New article by Dana Lew in Digital Defoe Vol. 16 (2025)! Abstract 👇 “‘Savage’ Idolatry: Jodocus Crull, Defoe, and the Robinson Crusoe Sequels”
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Naming and Classifying cfp final CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🔴 1659 Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

Crusoe leaves Brazil on his disastrous slaving voyage.

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🔴 1652 Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

Crusoe captured by Turkish pirates and enslaved for two years at Salé, on the Barbary Coast.

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🔴 1651 Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

Crusoe runs away to sea and is promptly shipwrecked

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Sill abstract

New article by Geoffrey Sill in Digital Defoe Vol. 16 (2025)! Abstract 👇
“Versions of Defoe: Frontispiece Portraits of the Author”
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Defoe Society ASECS 2026 CFP

Attention #Defoe scholars! Just under a month to submit your abstracts for our sponsored #ASECS2026 panel, “Weather, Climate, and the Anthropocene in Daniel Defoe." Panel description👇
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Congrats 2025 recipients of our J. Paul Hunter Prize: Aleksandra Jarecka (Kazimierz Wielki), “Why did Poland have to have colonies? The 1933 Polish Translations of Defoe’s Captain Singleton” & Jane Cooper (Oxford), “Royalist Chauvinism v Epistemic Humility: Pindaric Odes on the Early Royal Society.”

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FARIAS, Clarissa Mattos. "Fictions of the Feminine in the 18th Century Novel." Varia Historia 41 (2025): e25012.

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Pirates, Punters, and Politicians A pirate is not all that different from a financier, and a financier is always a storyteller. In Pirates, Punters, and Politicians Val Hamilton vividly tells the story of the origins of the Bank of En...

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Hamilton, Val. Pirates, Punters, and Politicians: How the Bank of England Was Founded. John Hunt Publishing, 2025.

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The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707) Published in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Chatterjee, Jacob Donald. "The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707)." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-12.

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Singh, Rajita Anand. "REALISTIC PORTRAYAL OF HUMAN RESILIENCE AND SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DANIEL DEFOE'S ROBINSON CRUSOE AND ROBERT ZEMECKIS'S CAST AWAY." International Journal of Cognitive Computing in Engineering 6.2 (2025): 60-68.

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Singh, Rajita Anand. "REALISTIC PORTRAYAL OF HUMAN RESILIENCE AND SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DANIEL DEFOE'S ROBINSON CRUSOE AND ROBERT ZEMECKIS'S CAST AWAY."

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July 31, 1703

Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers

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Intersectional Narratology: Critical Intervention as Theoretical Practice This article discusses intersectionality in its given range of being prism, theory and a practice of intervention at the same time. It argues that while many theories would shy away from being called ...

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Arndt, Susan. "Intersectional Narratology: Critical Intervention as Theoretical Practice." The Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans* Narrative Studies. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. 179-201.

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Carnell abstract

New article by Rachel Carnell in Digital Defoe Vol. 16 (2025)! Abstract 👇
“His ‘merry Fellow’ William: How Defoe Humanized His Quaker Contemporaries”: cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe...
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