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The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War (2022)
Journal Article
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.

Biography (2022)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2022). Biography. In J. Lynch (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson (260–278). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794660.013.16

This chapter surveys Samuel Johnson’s career as a biographer, exploring tensions between the ideals of life-writing he propounded in essays and conversations and his evolving practice from the 1730s to the 1780s. The chapter outlines three phases in... Read More about Biography.

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).