Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 13d

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

1 3

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 23d

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

3

Reposted by The Defoe Society

Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 24d

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 ...

docs.google.com

2 62 60

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔴 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

1

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔴 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

1 1

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔴 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

1 1

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

2 4

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

1 3 4

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.”

2

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Aug 15

New Publication Alert

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

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

www.academia.edu

1 2

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Aug 6

New Publication Alert

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

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

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...

books.google.com.tr

1 3

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

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)

doi.org

8 9

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

1

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Aug 5

New Publication Alert

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."

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

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...

ijoccie.com

1 1 2

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #OTD #todayinhistory

4 11

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

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 ...

link.springer.com

3

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

2 5

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Jul 10

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 3 Memories

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thcentury #C18th #18thc

1 3

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Jul 10

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 2 Memories

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thcentury #C18th #18thc

1 1 1

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thcentury #C18th #18thc

1 2 3

Reposted by The Defoe Society

Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · Jul 5

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 🫶🏻

1 1 6

Reposted by The Defoe Society

Julie Beq @juliebeq.bsky.social · Jul 5

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!

1 1 2

Reposted by The Defoe Society

Fahime Serhatti, PhD @fahimeserhatti.bsky.social · Jul 5

It was an honor to be part of this conference. Special thanks to Nick and Leah!

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

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thcentury #C18th #18thc

1 1 2

Reposted by The Defoe Society

Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · Jul 4

I hate that I was not there so very much. Thanks to Nick Seager for what I am told is his spot-on impersonation.

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

1 1 5

The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Jul 10

See you in 2027, @nushpowell.bsky.social!

1 1