The Works of Daniel Defoe


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Transformations of the Supernatural


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Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences and whether one can trust eyewitness accounts, Defoe demonstrates that more is at stake. Like his contemporaries, Defoe wonders about the range of scientific insight, and about the moral and epistemological ramifications of unchallenged trust and faith. His transformations of the supernatural probe the boundaries of knowledge and evidence and play with the limits of cognition, emphasizing the inseparability of mind and emotion.




Daniel Defoe's Due Preparations for the Plague


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Defoe published Due Preparations for the Plague, as Well for Soul as Body in 1722 virtually simultaneously with his more well known Journal of the Plague Year. A testament to both his literary genius and social conscience, Due Preparations finds Defoe confronting problems of social justice and spiritual anxiety that remain pertinent in the present time. Unavailable to the public in any widely accessible form for more than 100 years, this volume takes a worthy place among Defoe's most widely read novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack. Author and editor Logan Atkinson is a member of the Carleton University Department of Law and holds graduate degrees in law and in the philosophy of the humanities, and a doctorate in legal history. His research is focussed on intersections among law, literature and history, especially in the development of public health protection.