DigitalDefoe Journal

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The new issue of #DigitalDefoe is now live. Huzzah!
https://t.co/dGvpR1nQ9J

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
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Are you curious about curiosities?

Explore Barbara M. Benedict’s article on ‘Solitude and Collecting: Robinson’s Curiosities’
https://t.co/gn4sNIz9NM

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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
https://t.co/lypRSO0XwA

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#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
https://t.co/maB5SWboJe

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TODAY’S THE DAY!

Submit your article to Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries.

https://t.co/OFcEn18Azb

DEADLINE = TODAY

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FIVE DAYS TO GO…

DEADLINE
30 June 2022

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#CFP for Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries

And we stress “and His Contemporaries”!

DEADLINE: 30 June 2022

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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 https://t.co/OFcEn18Azb

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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
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@danjohnsonhymns @DigitalDefoe @chris_loar @profvanrenen Excellent. Feel free to email me (it’s on the flyer) if that helps along the way.

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@danjohnsonhymns @DigitalDefoe @chris_loar @profvanrenen We have a rolling deadline, so we’re happy to consider queries and submissions at any time. But June 30 is for work that needs to go through peer review for this year’s issue. Let me know if you have other questions!

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#CFP for Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries

And we stress “and His Contemporaries”!

DEADLINE: 30 June 2022

DETAILS: https://t.co/OFcEn18Azb

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#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!

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#CFP for Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries

We welcome scholarly articles, essays on teaching, innovative digital projects, & book reviews.

DEADLINE: 30 June 2022

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#OTD 24 April 1731 died #DanielDefoe who lived to the ripe old age of 70. In Character of the late Dr Annesley (1697) he had joked:

The best of men cannot suspend their fate
The good die early, and the bad die late

By his own classification does his dying late make him bad?

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“Then I reproached myself with my unthankful temper … we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it” (Robinson Crusoe)

‘Robinson Crusoe leaving the Island’ (1818):

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Calling all Defoe-ists!

And all Contemporaries-of-Defoe-ists!

Scholarly articles are sought for our 2022 issue. For details, please see https://t.co/PbTAmserPh

Any queries to @S_Insley_H @chris_loar @profvanrenen

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One crisis at a time...
…from plague to fire

Carly Yingst discusses how Defoe’s response to two crises might help us think about ways we have been pivoting between disasters.

The Fire the Next Year by @ceyingst
https://t.co/0LfTBh0rgD

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Heritage Engagement Officer post - 4 days a week for 18 months. Come and join us for 'Amazing Grace - Reflections at 250' #thankstonationallotteryplayers

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…we moralize, some of us, and we thereby lift ourselves up, transfiguring our discomfort & inconvenience into sacrifice & semi-secularized penance…

That Uncertain Feeling: Plaguetime & Judgment, Medieval to Modern
By @KarlSteel
https://t.co/EIK4npCqsB

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We're also looking for someone to join our team at @DigitalDefoe to support the digital humanities content in the journal. Is that you or someone you know? Drop us a line or come chat with us at #ASECS22.