The Defoe Society

About Us

The Defoe Society, an international body, was formed in 2006 in order to achieve the following:

1. To facilitate discussions and exchanges between Defoe scholars;
2. To encourage Defoe scholarship through the organization of academic panels, the eventual establishment of regular meetings, and the creation of an informal newsletter;
3. To build a website, on which will be posted an ongoing database of new Defoe publications;
4. To establish a relationship with libraries with significant Defoe collections, and to seek to access, and to post on our site, select primary documents shared by those libraries;
5. To discuss pedagogy in relation to Defoe’s corpus; and
6. To encourage increased public awareness of Defoe and his work.