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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.

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.

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

Prudence and Plagiarism in the 1740 Continuation of Defoe's Roxana (2009)
Journal Article
SEAGER, N. (2009). Prudence and Plagiarism in the 1740 Continuation of Defoe's Roxana. The Library, 10(4), 357--371. https://doi.org/10.1093/library/10.4.357

A number of spurious continuations of Defoe’s Roxana (1724) were published up to the end of the nineteenth century. One unjustly neglected later version is that which appeared in 1740, attributed to Elizabeth Applebee. At least seven different texts... Read More about Prudence and Plagiarism in the 1740 Continuation of Defoe's Roxana.