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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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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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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!
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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”
cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe...
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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🔴 1659 Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

Crusoe leaves Brazil on his disastrous slaving voyage.

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September 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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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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September 1, 2025 at 6:11 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👇
asecs.org/sessions2026...
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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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 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 3 Memories

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July 10, 2025 at 10:27 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 2 Memories

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thcentury #C18th #18thc
July 10, 2025 at 10:21 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

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thcentury #C18th #18thc
July 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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EIGHTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS, 1660 – 1740

GUILDHALL, LICHFIELD, UK
3–5 JULY 2025

Day 3, Presidential Roundtable

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July 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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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 9:53 AM
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EIGHTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS, 1660 – 1740

GUILDHALL, LICHFIELD, UK
3–5 JULY 2025

Day 3, Panels 6

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July 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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EIGHTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS, 1660 – 1740

GUILDHALL, LICHFIELD, UK
3–5 JULY 2025

Day 2, Panel 5

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July 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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EIGHTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS, 1660 – 1740

GUILDHALL, LICHFIELD, UK
3–5 JULY 2025

Day 2, Plenary Lecture

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July 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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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 10:04 AM
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EIGHTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS, 1660 – 1740

GUILDHALL, LICHFIELD, UK
3–5 JULY 2025

Day 2, Panels 3

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July 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Panel 2b
July 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Panel 2a
July 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Panel 1b
July 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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EIGHTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS, 1660 – 1740

GUILDHALL, LICHFIELD, UK
3–5 JULY 2025

Day 1
July 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Attention Digital Defoe readers! The 2025 (Vol. 16) issue just dropped! Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading and sharing!
cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/
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Digital Defoe vol. 16 Features Digital Defoe vol. 16 Book Reviews
June 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM