Global Defoe: His Times and His Contemporaries – Call For Papers

Global Defoe: His Times and His Contemporaries
Third Biennial Meeting of the Defoe Society
Normal, Illinois
August 9-10, 2013

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The third biennial meeting of the Defoe Society, will be held from August 9-10, 2013 at the Normal Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Normal, Illinois. The theme for the meeting is “Global Defoe: His Times & His Contemporaries.” The following is a list of proposed panel sessions. Paper proposals will also be considered which are centred on Defoe and his contemporaries but do not fit with the panel topics:

  • Defoe’s Afterlives
  • Crime in the Age of Defoe
  • Defoe’s Energy
  • Public Intellectualism and the Eighteenth Century
  • The Island Motif in Defoe and His Contemporaries
  • Graduate Student Panel: New Directions in Defoe Studies
  • Defoe on the Globe: Is there any nature in the eighteenth century?
  • Piratical Contemporaries
  • Defoe’s Self-Reflexive Prose
  • Fables, local and global, 1660-1740
  • Defoe and Sermonic Literature
  • Defoe and Female Novelists, and our History of Novels: A Roundtable Discussion
  • The Social Networks of Daniel Defoe
  • The Scottish Question: Defoe and his Contemporaries on Scotland
  • Recent research in Global Defoe

Individual CFP notices for each panel session can be found at the Global Defoe CFP website: http://english.illinoisstate.edu/digitaldefoe/defoesociety/cfp.html

Please send all abstracts for all panels to Sharon Alker at: alkersr@whitman.edu. Abstracts are due by February 15th, 2013.