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Afterword (2023)
Book Chapter
Kallis, A. (2023). Afterword. In Reimagining Mobilities across the Humanities. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This afterword to the Ideas section starts by considering the role of ‘contact zones’, which are places of accumulation and organisation of differential knowledge that were already pronounced in early historical periods. However, from the expansion o... Read More about Afterword.

‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This (2023)
Book Chapter
Peacock, J. (2023). ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This. In Benjamin Markovits Critical Essays. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032614892-6

Halfway through Markovits’ novel about a scheme to regenerate Detroit’s neighbourhoods, the narrator, Greg Marnier (known as Marny), returns from his girlfriend’s apartment in the snow. On Mack Avenue, he starts to feel “scared” and reflects on “the... Read More about ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This.

Defoe and Economics (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. Defoe and Economics. In The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (249-271). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.41

This chapter outlines Daniel Defoe’s economic ideas, first situating his periodical essays, pamphlets, and economic tracts in the context of the financial revolution, then considering anxieties he expresses about the new ‘culture of commerce’, and fi... Read More about Defoe and Economics.

The Celebrated Daniel De Foe (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. The Celebrated Daniel De Foe. In The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (583-609). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.40

The story of Daniel Defoe’s publication, from his death in 1731 to the mid-twentieth century, shows three things that have been inadequately acknowledged in accounts of his posthumous reputation. First, his writings were extensively republished, and... Read More about The Celebrated Daniel De Foe.

The Style of Defoe’s Correspondence (2023)
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Mierowsky, M. The Style of Defoe’s Correspondence. In The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe Get access Arrow (177-194). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.10

This chapter examines Daniel Defoe’s use of letters, both within printed works that adopt an epistolary format such as The Complete English Tradesman (1725–7) and his personal correspondence with politicians and other associates. The chapter reveals... Read More about The Style of Defoe’s Correspondence.

The Celebrated Daniel De Foe: Publication History, 1731-1945 (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2023). The Celebrated Daniel De Foe: Publication History, 1731-1945. In N. Seager, & J. A. Downie (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (583-609). Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.40

The story of Daniel Defoe’s publication, from his death in 1731 to the mid-twentieth century, shows three things that have been inadequately acknowledged in accounts of his posthumous reputation. First, his writings were extensively republished, and... Read More about The Celebrated Daniel De Foe: Publication History, 1731-1945.

Defoe and Economics: Industry, Trade, and Finance (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2023). Defoe and Economics: Industry, Trade, and Finance. In N. Seager, & J. A. Downie (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (249-271). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.41

This chapter outlines Daniel Defoe’s economic ideas, first situating his periodical essays, pamphlets, and economic tracts in the context of the financial revolution, then considering anxieties he expresses about the new ‘culture of commerce’, and fi... Read More about Defoe and Economics: Industry, Trade, and Finance.

Press and Politics in the Seventeenth Century (2023)
Book Chapter
Liapi, L. (2023). Press and Politics in the Seventeenth Century. In The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1 (529-545). Edinburgh University Press

Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter
Cook, D., & Seager, N. (2023). Introduction. In The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels (1-8). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909488.002

The introduction recounts the life and writing career of Jonathan Swift, centred on his authorship of Gulliver’s Travels (1726). It provides an overview of the action of Swift’s masterpiece, placing the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver in parallel to th... Read More about Introduction.

A Voyage to Brobdingnag (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2023). A Voyage to Brobdingnag. In D. Cook, & N. Seager (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels (137-149). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909488.013

The Voyage to Brobdingnag reduces Gulliver from the magnanimous and principled behemoth of the Voyage to Lilliput to a risible and contemptible little beast. The first section considers how Gulliver is diminished to an inconsequential creature, objec... Read More about A Voyage to Brobdingnag.

The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity (2023)
Book Chapter
Williams, A. (2023). The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity. In The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology (63-72). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003042983-8

This chapter evaluates the critical musicologies of the 1990s and follows their subsequent trajectories. It compares such models of encoded meanings with alternative approaches whereby meaning resides primarily in social use or in other forms of shar... Read More about The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity.

Sutton, Katherine (2023)
Book Chapter
Adcock, R. (2023). Sutton, Katherine. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Springer

Politics (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2023). Politics. In A. Rivero, & G. Justice (Eds.), Daniel Defoe in Context (155--162). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108872140.025

Written with general readers and students in mind, the essays in this volume provide up-to-date knowledge about eighteenth-century literature, culture, and history in a high quality, clearly written, but completely accessible form. Defoe came to p... Read More about Politics.

Introduction to May Sinclair, Cuentos de lo insólito (2023)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2023). Introduction to May Sinclair, Cuentos de lo insólito. In May Sinclair; Cuentos de lo insólito. (1). Spain: La Biblioteca De Carfax

Introduction to Spanish translation of May Sinclair's Uncanny Stories