Outputs (39)

Style Substance And The Status Of The Defoe Canon FINAL (2024)
Journal Article
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 Novel (2024)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2024). The Novel. In J. Hone, & P. Rogers (Eds.), Jonathan Swift in Context (190-198). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Jonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub, in addition to vast numbers of political pamphlets, satirical verses, sermons, and o... Read More about The Novel.

Pat Rogers. Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain: Panorama of the Nation Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. $99.99 (cloth). (2024)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (in press). Pat Rogers. Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain: Panorama of the Nation Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. $99.99 (cloth). Journal of British Studies, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.11

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.

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (Ed. by N Seager) (2023)
Book
Seager, N. (2023). N. Seager, & J. Downie (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (Ed. by N Seager). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robin... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (Ed. by N Seager).

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels (Ed. N Seager) (2023)
Book
Seager, N. (2023). D. Cook, & N. Seager (Eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels (Ed. N Seager). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909488

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.

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.

Things That Didn't Happen: Writing, Politics and the Counterhistorical, 1678-1743 (2023)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2023). Things That Didn't Happen: Writing, Politics and the Counterhistorical, 1678-1743. Eighteenth Century Studies, 56(3), 481-483. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0048

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.

Georgian Playbills in the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum (2022)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2022). Georgian Playbills in the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum

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).

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (2022)
Book
Seager, N. (2022). The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316459546

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

Defoe's Authorship of A Hymn to the Mob (1715) (2020)
Journal Article
Seager. (2020). Defoe's Authorship of A Hymn to the Mob (1715). Notes and Queries, 408-409. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaa104

Short note.

Defoe's Authorship of A Hymn to the Mob (1715) (2020)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2020). Defoe's Authorship of A Hymn to the Mob (1715). Notes and Queries, 67(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaa104

'No abstract'

The Rise of the Novel in Britain, 1660–1780 (2019)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2019). The Rise of the Novel in Britain, 1660–1780. In A. Hadfield (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199846719-0163

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.

The Clause Proposed in the English Parliament to Prevent the French Goods Being Imported Thro’ Scotland (1707): A New Defoe Attribution (2019)
Journal Article
Seager. (2019). The Clause Proposed in the English Parliament to Prevent the French Goods Being Imported Thro’ Scotland (1707): A New Defoe Attribution. Notes and Queries, 66(1), 83-85. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjy212

'No abstract'

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.

The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Samuel Johnson (2016)
Book
SEAGER, N., & WILCOX, L. (2016). The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Samuel Johnson. Broadview Press

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Ed. N Seager) (2015)
Book
Seager, N. (2015). D. Cook, & N. Seager (Eds.). The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Ed. N Seager). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107294424

The Novel's Afterlife in the Newspaper, 1712-1750 (2015)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2015). The Novel's Afterlife in the Newspaper, 1712-1750. In D. Cook, & N. Seager (Eds.), The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (111--132). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107294424

This collection of essays offers insights into the ways in which eighteenth-century novels have been adapted and appropriated by later writers.

Daniel Defoe’s Some Thoughts of an Honest Tory in the Country (1716): A Critical Edition (2015)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2015). Daniel Defoe’s Some Thoughts of an Honest Tory in the Country (1716): A Critical Edition. Digital Defoe, 7, 1--33

Serialization of Defoe's Tour in All Alive and Merry (1740-42) (2015)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2015). Serialization of Defoe's Tour in All Alive and Merry (1740-42). Notes and Queries, 62, 295--297. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjv054

John Bunyan and Socinianism (2014)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2014). John Bunyan and Socinianism. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 65, 580--600. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046913000596

"She will not be that Tyrant they desire": Daniel Defoe and Queen Anne (2014)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2014). "She will not be that Tyrant they desire": Daniel Defoe and Queen Anne. In C. Reverand (Ed.), Queen Anne and the Arts. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP

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

Samuel Richardson and the Third Volume of Gulliver's Travels (2013)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2013). Samuel Richardson and the Third Volume of Gulliver's Travels. Swift Studies, 28, 128--136

Introduction, Annotated Bibliography, and Explanatory Notes (2013)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2013). Introduction, Annotated Bibliography, and Explanatory Notes. In Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Other Works. Wordsworth Classics

Gulliver's Travels Serialized and Continued (2013)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2013). Gulliver's Travels Serialized and Continued. In K. Juhas, H. Real, & S. Simon (Eds.), Reading Swift: Papers from the Sixth Muenster Symposium on Jonathan Swift (543–562). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846754306_033

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

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.