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1719-2019, 2019 – ?:
Predicting the Future of Defoe Studies
Papers From the Presidential Roundtable
Defoe Society Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2023

An astrologer wearing a wig looks through a telescope at the sky. The telescope is suspended by a rope from a stone obelisk. A surprised servant, arms spread wide, looks on from the left of the frame.

  • Defoe and the Chatbot: The Emotional Avoidance of Predictive Prose
    Katherine Ellison
  • More Wars of Attribution?
    Manushag N. Powell
  • Defoe, Aesthetics, and the Craft of Writing
    Rivka Swenson
  • (Re)Placing Defoe
    Eugenia Zuroski

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Features
  • 翻译: R.F. Kuang’s Babel, Jonathan Swift, and Sideways Reading
    Lillian Lu
  • Thieving Hooks, and the Stories We Tell about Pirates
    Manushag N. Powell
  • A Look at “Defoe’s Contributions to Robert Drury’s Journal: A Stylometric Analysis,” By Irving N. Rothman et al.—Are the Results Valid?
    Joseph Rudman
  • The Incidental Cavalier:  Re-reading Defoe’s Memoirs of a Cavalier
    Ian Ward

🏝️🏴‍☠️

Reviews
  • Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843, edited by Misty Krueger
    Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Bohls
  • What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century, Kathleen Lubey
    Reviewed by Kelly Fleming
  • Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, edited by Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn
    Reviewed by Nicholas Seager

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(Image: “Sidrophel Examining the Kite Through His Telescope (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler’s Hudibras, no. 10),” 1721/26)

 

 

Issue 15.1 | Fall 2023|
ISSN 1948-1802 (online)

Editorial Staff

J. P. Ascher, Stephanie Hershinow,
Christopher Loar, &
Denys Van Renen, Co-Editors
Rivka Swenson,
Book Reviews Editor
Michelle Lyons-McFarland, Technical Editor
Krista Roberts, Projects Editor

Design Staff

Katherine Ellison
Francesco Levato

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