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…we moralize, some of us, and we thereby lift ourselves up, transfiguring our discomfort & inconvenience into sacrifice & semi-secularized penance… That Uncertain Feeling: Plaguetime & Judgment, Medieval to Modern By @KarlSteel digitaldefoe.org/2022/01/03/tha… Stephanie Insley Hershinow @chris_loar

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One crisis at a time... …from plague to fire Carly Yingst discusses how Defoe’s response to two crises might help us think about ways we have been pivoting between disasters. The Fire the Next Year by @ceyingst digitaldefoe.org/2022/01/03/the… Stephanie Insley Hershinow @chris_loar ProfVanRenen

Calling all Defoe-ists! And all Contemporaries-of-Defoe-ists! Scholarly articles are sought for our 2022 issue. For details, please see digitaldefoe.org/submission/ Any queries to Stephanie Insley Hershinow @chris_loar ProfVanRenen

“Then I reproached myself with my unthankful temper … we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it” (Robinson Crusoe) ‘Robinson Crusoe leaving the Island’ (1818):

#OTD 24 April 1731 died #DanielDefoe who lived to the ripe old age of 70. In Character of the late Dr Annesley (1697) he had joked: The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late By his own classification does his dying late make him bad?

#CFP for Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries We welcome scholarly articles, essays on teaching, innovative digital projects, & book reviews. DEADLINE: 30 June 2022 DETAILS: digitaldefoe.org/submission/ #danieldefoe #18thCentury

#OTD 17 May 1712 #DanielDefoe published 'The Present State of the Parties in Great Britain', defiantly defending 'The Shortest Way with the Dissenters' which had got him time in the pillory, impudently asserting “that the whole Nation had receiv'd a New Tincture” because of him!

#CFP for Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries And we stress “and His Contemporaries”! DEADLINE: 30 June 2022 DETAILS: digitaldefoe.org/submission/ QUERIES: Stephanie Insley Hershinow @chris_loar @profvanrenen #DanielDefoe #18thCentury #AcademicTwitter #CallForPapers

Dr Daniel Johnson DigitalDefoe Journal @chris_loar @profvanrenen We have a rolling deadline, so we’re happy to consider queries and submissions at any time. But June 30 is for work that needs to go through peer review for this year’s issue. Let me know if you have other questions!

Dr Daniel Johnson DigitalDefoe Journal @chris_loar @profvanrenen Excellent. Feel free to email me (it’s on the flyer) if that helps along the way.

From Charles II’s “lazy long lascivious reign” (1701) to ‘Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover’ (1713). If you have an essay on any aspect of the lives & works of Defoe &/or his contemporaries consider submitting it to us DEADLINE 30 June 2022 Stephanie Insley Hershinow #cfp

Ten days to go!… DEADLINE 30 June 2022 Do you have an article on 17th–18th-century authors' lives & texts that you are itching to publish? If so, consider ‘Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries’ SUBMISSION digitaldefoe.org/submission/ Stephanie Insley Hershinow @chris_loar

FIVE DAYS TO GO… DEADLINE 30 June 2022 SUBMISSION digitaldefoe.org/submission/ QUERIES Stephanie Insley Hershinow @chris_loar @profvanrenen #cfp #DanielDefoe #18thCentury #AcademicTwitter #CallForPapers

TODAY’S THE DAY! Submit your article to Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries. digitaldefoe.org/submission/ DEADLINE = TODAY Stephanie Insley Hershinow @chris_loar @profvanrenen #cfp #DanielDefoe #18thCentury #AcademicTwitter #CallForPapers

#Defoe wrote devilishly vivid ghost stories! This #Halloween learn more about Defoe's tales & the C17th worry about invisible beings swarming about us. ‘Defoe’s Spirits, Apparitions & the Occult’ by Maximillian Novak english.illinoisstate.edu/digitaldefoe/a… @chris_loar Stephanie Insley Hershinow @profvanrenen

Worries over the profitability of misinformation in the press are nothing new! Defoe thought false intelligence threatened to “infect the morality” of the nation in 1704. Lee Kahan explores The Dangers of Seriality in Defoe’s periodicals and Moll Flanders english.illinoisstate.edu/digitaldefoe/a…

Are you curious about curiosities? Explore Barbara M. Benedict’s article on ‘Solitude and Collecting: Robinson’s Curiosities’ digitaldefoe.org/2021/05/29/sol… @chris_loar Stephanie Insley Hershinow

The new issue of #DigitalDefoe is now live. Huzzah! digitaldefoe.org Wonderful essays by Peter DeGabriele on Parroting Solitude, @gregg_sh on The Nature of ECCO, Aaron Hanlon on Information & Credibility, & Maximillian Novak on the Economic Sublime @chris_loar Stephanie Insley Hershinow