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The Defoe Society is dedicated to supporting and advancing research and pedagogy related to Defoe’s corpus through the organization of conferences and panels, administration of awards, and facilitation of exchanges between Defoe scholars. defoesociety.org
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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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Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR
Christopher Hamlin, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 92, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2020), pp. 933-935
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November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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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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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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November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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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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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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November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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nikkihessell.bsky.social
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
defoesociety.bsky.social The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Oct 27
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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Hessell abstract
October 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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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
Hessell abstract
October 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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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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October 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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New article, “Revisiting Defoe’s Library Catalogue,” by Angela Gehling in Digital Defoe Vol. 16 (2025). Article excerpt 👇
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Thanks for reading #digitaldefoe!
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #booksellers
Gehling excerpt
September 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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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
Lew abstract
September 17, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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aksagal.bsky.social
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...
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 ...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🔴 1651 Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

Crusoe runs away to sea and is promptly shipwrecked

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September 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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New article by Geoffrey Sill in Digital Defoe Vol. 16 (2025)! Abstract 👇
“Versions of Defoe: Frontispiece Portraits of the Author”
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Thanks for reading #digitaldefoe! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #portraits #portraiture #engravings #frontispieces
Sill abstract
August 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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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
Defoe Society ASECS 2026 CFP
August 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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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.”
August 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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New Publication Alert

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

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August 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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New Publication Alert

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

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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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August 6, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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New Publication Alert

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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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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August 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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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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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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August 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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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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July 31, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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New Publication Alert

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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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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July 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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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...
Thanks for reading #digitaldefoe! #danieldefoe #defoe #quakers #captainsingleton #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC
Carnell abstract
July 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Thank you to all the wonderful participants! We truly cherish the fantastic memories we created together at The Defoe Society's Eighth Biennial Conference in Lichfield, UK, from July 3 to 5, 2025. It was a delightful experience!

Day 1 Memories

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July 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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megandanielle.bsky.social
Had a fantastic time at my first @defoesociety.bsky.social conference! I presented my research on drink, class, and narrative in Fielding and Defoe 🍻 Big thanks to @nick-seager.bsky.social for organising & the board who awarded me the John Richetti Student Bursary to enable me to go 🫶🏻
July 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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juliebeq.bsky.social
What a terrific conference that was!
Huge thanks to all @defoesociety.bsky.social members and organisers - and to the city of Lichfield for offering us such a beautiful building for our nerdy presentations and conversations!
July 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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fahimeserhatti.bsky.social
It was an honor to be part of this conference. Special thanks to Nick and Leah!
defoesociety.bsky.social The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Jul 5
EIGHTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS, 1660 – 1740

GUILDHALL, LICHFIELD, UK
3–5 JULY 2025

Day 3, Panels 7

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July 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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nushpowell.bsky.social
I hate that I was not there so very much. Thanks to Nick Seager for what I am told is his spot-on impersonation.
defoesociety.bsky.social The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Jul 4
EIGHTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS, 1660 – 1740

GUILDHALL, LICHFIELD, UK
3–5 JULY 2025

Day 2, Panels 4

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thcentury #C18th #18thc
July 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM