Digital Defoe: A Peer-Reviewed Journal

Digital Defoe launched on June 1, 2009. It is a free, open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarship on the works of Defoe and his contemporaries. Its current co-editors are Stephanie Hershinow (Baruch College, CUNY), Christopher Loar (Western Washington University), and Denys Van Renen (University of Nebraska at Kearney).

Current Issue
The sixteenth volume (2025) includes some outstanding and engaging scholarship: Rachel Carnell on Defoe’s Quakers; Geoffrey Sill on Defoe’s frontispieces and portraits; Dana Lew on Russia in the Crusoe sequels; and Christopher Douglas on isolation, Defoe, Swift, and Animal Crossing. This volume also includes an important essay by the late Angela Gehling on Defoe’s library catalog. Digital Defoe is honored to be able to bring this essay into the world, and is grateful to Dr. Gehling’s friends and colleagues Amelia Dale, Matthew Risling, and Peter Weise for trusting the journal with it. This volume also includes reviews of outstanding books by Stephanie Hershinow and Catherine Ingrassia, and of critical editions from David Brewer, Max Novak, Irving Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn. Many thanks to Nicole Horejsi, Laura Miller, Brett Wilson, and Rebekah Mitsein for their thoughtful reviews.

Past Issues
This sixteenth volume also marks the formal debut of the new Digital Defoe host. The journal is in the process of migrating all volumes to this host; at this time, select earlier volumes can still be found at https://digitaldefoe.org/.

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