DigitalDefoe Journal

The new issue of #DigitalDefoe is now live. Huzzah! digitaldefoe.org/ Wonderful essays by Peter DeGabriele on Parroting Solitude, @gregg_sh on The Nature of ECCO, Aaron Hanlon on Information & Credibility, & Maximillian Novak on the Economic Sublime @chris_loar @S_Insley_H

Are you curious about curiosities? Explore Barbara M. Benedict’s article on ‘Solitude and Collecting: Robinson’s Curiosities’ digitaldefoe.org/2021/05/29/… @chris_loar @S_Insley_H

Worries over the profitability of misinformation in the press are nothing new! Defoe thought false intelligence threatened to “infect the morality” of the nation in 1704. Lee Kahan explores The Dangers of Seriality in Defoe’s periodicals and Moll Flanders english.illinoisstate.edu/di…

#Defoe wrote devilishly vivid ghost stories! This #Halloween learn more about Defoe's tales & the C17th worry about invisible beings swarming about us. ‘Defoe’s Spirits, Apparitions & the Occult’ by Maximillian Novak english.illinoisstate.edu/di… @chris_loar @S_Insley_H @profvanrenen

TODAY’S THE DAY! Submit your article to Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries. digitaldefoe.org/submission/ DEADLINE = TODAY @S_Insley_H @chris_loar @profvanrenen #cfp #DanielDefoe #18thCentury #AcademicTwitter #CallForPapers

FIVE DAYS TO GO… DEADLINE 30 June 2022 SUBMISSION digitaldefoe.org/submission/ QUERIES @S_Insley_H @chris_loar @profvanrenen #cfp #DanielDefoe #18thCentury #AcademicTwitter #CallForPapers

Ten days to go!… DEADLINE 30 June 2022 Do you have an article on 17th–18th-century authors' lives & texts that you are itching to publish? If so, consider ‘Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries’ SUBMISSION digitaldefoe.org/submission/ @S_Insley_H @chris_loar

From Charles II’s “lazy long lascivious reign” (1701) to ‘Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover’ (1713). If you have an essay on any aspect of the lives & works of Defoe &/or his contemporaries consider submitting it to us DEADLINE 30 June 2022 @S_Insley_H #cfp

#CFP for Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries And we stress “and His Contemporaries”! DEADLINE: 30 June 2022 DETAILS: digitaldefoe.org/submission/ QUERIES: @S_Insley_H @chris_loar @profvanrenen #DanielDefoe #18thCentury #AcademicTwitter #CallForPapers

#OTD 17 May 1712 #DanielDefoe published 'The Present State of the Parties in Great Britain', defiantly defending 'The Shortest Way with the Dissenters' which had got him time in the pillory, impudently asserting “that the whole Nation had receiv'd a New Tincture” because of him!