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Style Substance And The Status Of The Defoe Canon FINAL (2024)
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Seager, N. (in press). Style Substance And The Status Of The Defoe Canon FINAL. The Library,

This article re-attributes to Daniel Defoe (c.1660–1731) one pamphlet and confirms his authorship of three works currently listed as ‘probable’ attributions, including one substantial book. More generally, it proposes refinements to authorship attrib... Read More about Style Substance And The Status Of The Defoe Canon FINAL.

The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War (2022)
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Seager. (2023). The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War. Review of English Studies, 74(314), https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgac082

Daniel Defoe’s pirate novel Captain Singleton (1720) was republished in 1757, during the political and military crises of the early stages of the Seven Years’ War. The fact that Singleton at this time was extensively rewritten has gone entirely unnot... Read More about The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War.

Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709) (2021)
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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).

Crusoe's Crusade: Defoe, Genocide, and Imperialism (2019)
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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.

Pouring out of one vessel into another: Originality and Imitation in Two Modern Adaptations of Tristram Shandy (2018)
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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)
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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.

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.