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