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New Publication Alert Keymer, Tom, and Dana Lew. "Reading Defoe with Rawson." Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature 9.1 (2025). #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

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Reading Defoe with Rawson. Discover this 2025 paper in Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature by Keymer, Tom; and, Lew, Dana Abstract: This essay considers the implications for eighteenth-century studies of Claude Rawson's God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945, as the book approaches the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication. In this wide-ranging monograph, several of Rawson's key arguments turn on readings of Gulliver's Travels (1726), A Modest Proposal (1729), and other works by Jonathan Swift, but they also have important consequences for Swift's great contemporary and antagonist Daniel Defoe. Emphasizing Rawson's approach to irony as unstable and double-edged and his confrontation with questions of genocide, we analyze the vexed case of Defoe's controversial pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) and Defoe's troubled revisiting of themes from Robinson Crusoe (1719) in the two continuations of 1719 and 1720, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&profile=ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=25204920&AN=184336088&h=ECT7UFYVPu0tYVQNaaONLX%2FhbKgCCTlCp91KO9rZXgm4WW3%2BsnqoXbCcwbnpDLEvQ3lXy%2FF%2Facr6DR7lMNiarQ%3D%3D&crl=c