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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
New Publication Alert Yingst, Carlisle, and Shruti Jain. "Chapter XI. The Eighteenth Century: 1. The Novel." The Year’s Work in English Studies (2026): maag035. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #defoesociety
Chapter XI. The Eighteenth Century: 1. The Novel
Work on the novel in 2024 was, as ever, substantial, varied and strong, covering a wide range of texts by a wide range of authors, while taking a similarly
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New Publication Alert Mukherjee, Sujaan. "Reading Robinson Crusoe in Bengal: Textual Transmission, Translation and Authorship." Travelling Texts. Routledge 245-261. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #defoesociety
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Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) is among the most widely travelled and translated texts in the English literary canon. The first Bangla
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New Publication Alert van den Berg, Richard. "From ‘the Planting of People’to the ‘Natural Growth of Settlements’: Early Spatial Economics in Daniel Defoe and Richard Cantillon." The Revival of Classical Political Economy. Routledge 59-82. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
From ‘the Planting of People’ to the ‘Natural Growth of Settlements’ |
This chapter focuses on the significance of the occurrence in the writings of both Daniel Defoe and Richard Cantillon of simple accounts of the emergence of
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New Publication Alert Pecora, Vincent P. "Chapter 7 Jonah and the Uses of Scripture: Defoe, Melville, Conrad". Inventing the Secular. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2026. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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New Publication Alert Kenney, Colleen E. “The Dance of Wildish Lights in a Woman’s Eyes”: Representations of Female Criminality in Select 18th and 19th Century British Novels. Diss. The University of Arizona, 2026. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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New Publication Alert Schicktanz, Silke, Andrew S. Gross, and Richard Hölzl, eds. Infection and Injustice: Narrative Dimensions in the Representation of Pandemics. transcript Verlag, 2026. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Infection and Injustice
Infections spread, and stories are composed: The difference between the two forms of communicability ‒ transmission and representation ‒ opens a space for reflecting on what illness means. The contrib...
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New Publication Alert Mohinur, Qayimova. "STRATEGIES FOR TRANSLATING ENGLISH IDIOMS INTO UZBEK IN DANIEL DEFOES ROBINSON CRUSOE." HSR (London) 12.06 (2026): 2603-2606. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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New Publication Alert Mengel, Ewald. "Authenticity, the Epistolary, and Beyond: The ‘Substance of the Truth’in Coetzee’s Foe." Humanities 15.7 (2026): 84. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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New Publication Alert Yuka Hiromoto, Nicholas Hudson. The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800, The Review of English Studies, 2026. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Nicholas Hudson. The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800
Jane Austen famously deplored the lack of solidarity among novelists, especially women novelists, who, in exchange for their respectability, make their her
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New Publication Alert SEAGER, NICHOLAS. "Style, Substance, and the Status of the Defoe Canon." The Library 27.2 (2026): 209-232. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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New Publication Alert McCarthy, Karen. "A" landlocked Crusoe, bearded and wild of eye": Male Isolation in John Banville's Eclipse and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe." Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 24.2 (2026): 341-354 #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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New Publication Alert Tatsiou, Eleni, Marianna Karamanou, and Marianna Karamamou. "Bills of Mortality and the Birth of Epidemic Surveillance: Evidence, Uncertainty, and Decision-Making in Defoe’s Plague Narrative." Cureus 18.5 (2026). #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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New Publication Alert Espejo, Paulina Ochoa. "The Character of Territory: Robinson Crusoe’s Island and Indigenous Land Defenders as Political Myths." Democratic Theory 13.1 (2026): 42-60. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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The Character of Territory: Robinson Crusoe’s Island and Indigenous Land Defenders as Political Myths - Volume 13 Issue 1
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On April 25, 1719, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is published. #OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #April25 #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #RobinsonCrusoe
New Publication Alert Hensher, P (2026) A history of the novel in Britain. Pelican, London. ISBN 9780241558140 (Forthcoming) #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
A History of the Novel in Britain
The story of the novel in Britain is a good story. It begins in the eighteenth century, when people from outside the regular circles of power and authority began to read in ever greater numbers, seeki...
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New Publication Alert Dan Poston, Chapter XI: The Eighteenth Century: 2. The Novel 1700–1750, The Year's Work in English Studies, 2026. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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New Publication Alert Turner, Joseph, et al. "Chapter XI. The Eighteenth Century: 11. General and Prose." The Year’s Work in English Studies (2026): maaf077. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Chapter XI. The Eighteenth Century: 11. General and Prose
2023 was, as might be expected, a mixed year for criticism and scholarship on general and prose topics in the eighteenth century. It was cheering to see th
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New Publication Alert West, Emily M. Rewriting the Mechanic: Text, Technology, and the Body in the Eighteenth Century, Bucknell University Press, 2027. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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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New Publication Alert 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/... #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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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New Publication Alert Mierowsky, Marc. A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence. Yale University Press, 2026. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence
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New Publication Alert Cole, Lucinda. "The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities." Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Springer, 2025. 1-243. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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New Publication Alert 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. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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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New Publication Alert VANWAGONER, BENJAMIN D. Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 2020, pp. 207–11. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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BENJAMIN D. VANWAGONER, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Fall 2020), pp. 207-211
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New Publication Alert Dorson, James. "Serial Singularity: Reading for the Project." To Be Continued–Forms of Narrative Continuation 89 (2025): 83. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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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New Publication Alert 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. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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Christopher Hamlin, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 92, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2020), pp. 933-935
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New Publication Alert 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. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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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New Publication Alert 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. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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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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
The Defoe Society@defoesociety.bsky.social · 11mo agoCongratulations 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
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
New Publication Alert 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. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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