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Digital Defoe is a mutually-anonymous peer-reviewed online journal with new volumes released annually. We welcome submissions exploring any area relating to Defoe and/or his contemporaries—broadly conceived. In addition to traditional scholarly papers, we welcome submissions of notes, pedagogical resources and reflections, as well as innovative multimedia projects relating to the long eighteenth century.

Current Volume: Volume 16 (2025)

Features

His “merry Fellow” William: How Defoe Humanized His Quaker Contemporaries
Rachel Carnell

Versions of Defoe: Frontispiece Portraits of the Author
Geoffrey Sill

“Savage” Idolatry: Jodocus Crull, Defoe, and the Robinson Crusoe Sequels
Dana Lew

Revisiting Defoe's Library Catalogue
Angela Gehling

A Videogame of the Plague Year: Mapping Robinson Crusoe onto Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020)
Christopher Douglas

Book Reviews

Review of Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660-1750, Catherine Ingrassia. University of Virginia Press, 2022. Pp. 314. $115.00. ISBN: 9780813948089 (Cloth). $39.50. ISBN: 9780813948096 (Paperback). $29.50. ISBN: 9780813948102 (eBook).
Nicole Horejsi

Review of Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel, Stephanie Insley Hershinow. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. 192. $52.00. ISBN 978-1421429670.
Laura Miller

Review of The Life of Madam de Beaumount and The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, edited by David A. Brewer. Broadview Press, 2023. Pp. 312. $22.95. ISBN: 978-1554813537.
Rebekah Mitsein

Review of The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, edited by Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn. Bucknell University Press, 2021. Pp. 476. $150.00. ISBN: 978-1684483266 (Hardcover). $62.95. ISBN: 978-1684483259 (Paperback). $62.95. ISBN: 9781684483273 (EPub).
Brett D. Wilson