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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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West, Emily M. Rewriting the Mechanic: Text, Technology, and the Body in the Eighteenth Century, Bucknell University Press, 2027.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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...
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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
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’.”
Gehling excerpt
New article, “Revisiting Defoe’s Library Catalogue,” by Angela Gehling in Digital Defoe Vol. 16 (2025). Article excerpt 👇
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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. 📚💙📚🖋️📚
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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Thanks for reading #digitaldefoe! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #jodocuscrull #idolatry #robinsoncrusoe
🔴 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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Please submit and share! Looking forward to reading your brilliant abstracts! #18C #C18
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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Hamilton, Val. Pirates, Punters, and Politicians: How the Bank of England Was Founded. John Hunt Publishing, 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."
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THREAT FRENCH INVASION 1692 Defoe GLORIOUS REVOLUTION JACOBITE POPISH VIOLENCE
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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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