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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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

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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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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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The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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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Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR

Christopher Hamlin, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 92, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2020), pp. 933-935

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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

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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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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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...

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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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🔴 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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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.”

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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

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The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707)

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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

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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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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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 🫶🏻

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Julie Beq @juliebeq.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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!

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Fahime Serhatti, PhD @fahimeserhatti.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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

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