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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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Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, Illustrated by John Austen, 1929 1st edition

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#defoe #illustration #art

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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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Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR BENJAMIN D. VANWAGONER, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Fall 2020), pp. 207-211

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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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Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR Christopher Hamlin, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 92, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2020), pp. 933-935

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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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Hessell abstract

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:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel

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Oil painting value study in pthalo green of Willwm Defoe from The Lighthouse film, 12” x 12” oil on canvas by JTony

Oil painting value study in pthalo green of Willwm Defoe from The Lighthouse film, 12” x 12” oil on canvas by JTony

Oct.21 I’m tired tonight, so just a quick value study in Pthalo Green for finishing later.
#art #painting #oilpainting #defoe #lighthouse

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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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2 “ … the #novel of illusionistic #realism, inherited from #Defoe, #Richardson, #Austen, #Flaubert, #Tolstoy and so on – is at best badly suited to thinking about #climatechange, and at worst an active participant in ‘a concealment of the real’.”

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Gehling excerpt

New article, “Revisiting Defoe’s Library Catalogue,” by Angela Gehling in Digital Defoe Vol. 16 (2025). Article excerpt 👇
cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe...
Thanks for reading #digitaldefoe!
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #booksellers

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A grad student told me she was surprised at how much she loved "Moll Flanders." I'm doing something right. #booksky #DeFoe #MollFlanders. 📚💙📚🖋️📚

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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”
cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe...
Thanks for reading #digitaldefoe! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #jodocuscrull #idolatry #robinsoncrusoe

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🔴 1659 Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

Crusoe leaves Brazil on his disastrous slaving voyage.

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #September1 #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #RobinsonCrusoe

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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.

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #September1 #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #RobinsonCrusoe

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🔴 1651 Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

Crusoe runs away to sea and is promptly shipwrecked

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #September1 #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #RobinsonCrusoe

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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”
cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe...
Thanks for reading #digitaldefoe! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #portraits #portraiture #engravings #frontispieces

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Defoe Society ASECS 2026 CFP

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👇
asecs.org/sessions2026...
Please submit and share! Looking forward to reading your brilliant abstracts! #18C #C18

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My next three novels. I guess all Strange Tales in their own way. Arthur
Machen was born very close to me in Caerleon, South Wales. #Wales #zafon #Defoe #Machen #gothic #literature #Strangetales

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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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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 Cogni...

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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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THREAT FRENCH INVASION 1692 Defoe GLORIOUS REVOLUTION JACOBITE POPISH VIOLENCE

#books #antiquarian #17thcentury #history #politics #France #Britain #war #invasion #revolution #Jacobites #Catholic #Defoe #bookauction
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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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