All Outputs (54)

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726) (2022)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2022). Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726). In K. Berndt, & A. Johns (Eds.), Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century (175--192). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650440-010

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) bears an uneasy relationship to the novel genre as this has been constructed in post-WWII criticism in terms of realism, coherent subjectivity, and middle-class values. Formally and ideologically, Gulliver r... Read More about Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726).

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (2022)
Book
Seager, N. (2022). The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316459546

Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709) (2021)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2021). Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709). Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 115(1), 79-86. https://doi.org/10.1086/712790

This article aims to remove the “probable” caveat from one title listed in P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens’s Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe (1998). It demonstrates that previously overlooked external evidence confirms the internal evidence cited... Read More about Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709).

Defoe's Authorship of A Hymn to the Mob (1715) (2020)
Journal Article
Seager. (2020). Defoe's Authorship of A Hymn to the Mob (1715). Notes and Queries, 408-409. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaa104

Short note.

Defoe's Authorship of A Hymn to the Mob (1715) (2020)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2020). Defoe's Authorship of A Hymn to the Mob (1715). Notes and Queries, 67(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaa104

'No abstract'

The Rise of the Novel in Britain, 1660–1780 (2019)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2019). The Rise of the Novel in Britain, 1660–1780. In A. Hadfield (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199846719-0163

Crusoe's Crusade: Defoe, Genocide, and Imperialism (2019)
Journal Article
Seager. (2019). Crusoe's Crusade: Defoe, Genocide, and Imperialism. https://doi.org/10.3917/etan.722.0196

This essay reassesses Robinson Crusoe's advocacy in Serious Reflections of a pan-Christian crusade against the pagan and Muslim worlds, a mission in part evangelical and in part military, to convert to Christ those who are receptive and to cut down r... Read More about Crusoe's Crusade: Defoe, Genocide, and Imperialism.

The Clause Proposed in the English Parliament to Prevent the French Goods Being Imported Thro’ Scotland (1707): A New Defoe Attribution (2019)
Journal Article
Seager. (2019). The Clause Proposed in the English Parliament to Prevent the French Goods Being Imported Thro’ Scotland (1707): A New Defoe Attribution. Notes and Queries, 66(1), 83-85. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjy212

'No abstract'

Pouring out of one vessel into another: Originality and Imitation in Two Modern Adaptations of Tristram Shandy (2018)
Journal Article
Seager. (2018). Pouring out of one vessel into another: Originality and Imitation in Two Modern Adaptations of Tristram Shandy. Adaptation, 228-251. https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apy010

Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759–67) appears to resist adaptation. Its verbal density, narrative complexity, and self-conscious bookishness mark it out as intensely medium-specific. However, its richly allusive style, scepticism about conventi... Read More about Pouring out of one vessel into another: Originality and Imitation in Two Modern Adaptations of Tristram Shandy.

Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession (2017)
Journal Article
Seager. (2017). Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession. Huntington Library Quarterly, 47-69. https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2017.0002

In this essay, Nicholas Seager argues for re-attributing two pamphlets to Daniel Defoe: A Secret History of One Year (1714) and Memoirs of the Conduct of Her Late Majesty and Her Last Ministry (1715). These works, published shortly after the Hanoveri... Read More about Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession.

The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Samuel Johnson (2016)
Book
SEAGER, N., & WILCOX, L. (2016). The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Samuel Johnson. Broadview Press

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Ed. N Seager) (2015)
Book
Seager, N. (2015). D. Cook, & N. Seager (Eds.). The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Ed. N Seager). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107294424

The Novel's Afterlife in the Newspaper, 1712-1750 (2015)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2015). The Novel's Afterlife in the Newspaper, 1712-1750. In D. Cook, & N. Seager (Eds.), The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (111--132). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107294424

This collection of essays offers insights into the ways in which eighteenth-century novels have been adapted and appropriated by later writers.

Daniel Defoe’s Some Thoughts of an Honest Tory in the Country (1716): A Critical Edition (2015)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2015). Daniel Defoe’s Some Thoughts of an Honest Tory in the Country (1716): A Critical Edition. Digital Defoe, 7, 1--33

Johnson, Biography and the Novel: The Fictional Afterlife of Richard Savage (2015)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2015). Johnson, Biography and the Novel: The Fictional Afterlife of Richard Savage. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 51(2), 152--170. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqv007

This article analyses three novels based on Richard Savage, the scapegrace eighteenth-century poet immortalized in Samuel Johnson's first major biography. Charles Whitehead's Richard Savage: A Romance of Real Life (1841–42), Stanley V. Makower's Rich... Read More about Johnson, Biography and the Novel: The Fictional Afterlife of Richard Savage.

Serialization of Defoe's Tour in All Alive and Merry (1740-42) (2015)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2015). Serialization of Defoe's Tour in All Alive and Merry (1740-42). Notes and Queries, 62, 295--297. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjv054

Picaresque and Rogue Narratives (2014)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2014). Picaresque and Rogue Narratives. In G. Day, J. Lynch, & E. al (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

"She will not be that Tyrant they desire": Daniel Defoe and Queen Anne (2014)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2014). "She will not be that Tyrant they desire": Daniel Defoe and Queen Anne. In C. Reverand (Ed.), Queen Anne and the Arts. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP

John Bunyan and Socinianism (2014)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2014). John Bunyan and Socinianism. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 65, 580--600. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046913000596

Introduction, Annotated Bibliography, and Explanatory Notes (2013)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2013). Introduction, Annotated Bibliography, and Explanatory Notes. In Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Other Works. Wordsworth Classics