All Outputs (52)

Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Other Works (Ed. by N Seager) (2013)
Book
Seager, N. (2013). N. Seager (Ed.). Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Other Works (Ed. by N Seager)

This collection brings together Jane Austen’s earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Her fragmentary juvenilia show Austen developing her own sense of narrative form... Read More about Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Other Works (Ed. by N Seager).

Providence, Futurity, and Typology in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (2012)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2012). Providence, Futurity, and Typology in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. In M. New, & S. Reedy (Eds.), Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism (163--181). University of Delaware Press

"He reviews without Fear, and acts without fainting": Defoe's Review (2012)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2012). "He reviews without Fear, and acts without fainting": Defoe's Review. Eighteenth Century Studies, 46.1, 131--142. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2012.0070

The Rise of the Novel: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism (2012)
Book
Seager, N. (2012). The Rise of the Novel: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism. Bloomsbury Publishing

Why have scholars located the emergence of the novel in eighteenth-century England? What historical forces and stylistic developments helped to turn a disreputable type of writing into an eminent literary form?

This Reader's Guide explores the key... Read More about The Rise of the Novel: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism.

Defoe at 350 (2011)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2011). Defoe at 350. Eighteenth Century Studies, 45, 142--150. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2011.0052

Daniel Defoe, the Novel, the Canon, and The Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (2011)
Journal Article
SEAGER, N. (2011). Daniel Defoe, the Novel, the Canon, and The Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins. Eighteenth Century, 8, 31--59

A Note on Buckeridge's 1740 Edition of Roxana (2009)
Journal Article
SEAGER, N. (2009). A Note on Buckeridge's 1740 Edition of Roxana. Digital Defoe, 1(1), 103--104. https://doi.org/10.70213/1948-1802.1057

IN HIS unpublished doctoral dissertation on the eighteenth-century continuations of Daniel Defoe’s Roxana, Spiro Peterson mentions two editions from 1740.1 One is the edition published by Elizabeth Applebee with its spurious continuation, which was i... Read More about A Note on Buckeridge's 1740 Edition of Roxana.

Jonathan Swift's Historical Novel: The Memoirs of Capt. John Creichton (2009)
Journal Article
HAMMOND, B., & SEAGER, N. (2009). Jonathan Swift's Historical Novel: The Memoirs of Capt. John Creichton. Swift Studies, 24, 70--87

The 1740 Roxana: Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, and Domestic Fiction (2009)
Journal Article
SEAGER, N. (2009). The 1740 Roxana: Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, and Domestic Fiction. Philological Quarterly, 88(1-2), 103--126

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.

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Fiction and Epistemology in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year (2008)
Journal Article
SEAGER, N. (2008). Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Fiction and Epistemology in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year. Modern Language Review, 103.3, 639--653. https://doi.org/10.2307/20467902

"A Romance the Likest to Truth that I ever Read": History, Fiction, and Politics in Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier (2008)
Journal Article
SEAGER, N. (2008). "A Romance the Likest to Truth that I ever Read": History, Fiction, and Politics in Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 20(4), 479--505. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecf.0.0021