Dr Nicholas Seager

Title: Lecturer
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I joined Keele in 2009, having studied at the Universities of East Anglia, Leeds and Nottingham. I teach courses across the English programme. My research interests are in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, particularly the intersections between literature and history, religion, politics and philosophy, as well as the relationships between historicism, formalism and book history.

At present, I am writing a monograph on Daniel Defoe’s contribution to the emergence of the English novel, entitled Daniel Defoe and the History of Fictional Form, as well as a guide to literary criticism on the eighteenth-century novel. In the longer term, I am starting work on a cultural history of allegory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I would be glad to hear from students interested in working in any of these areas.

Selected Publications

  • Seager NP. 2014. John Bunyan and Socinianism. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 64.
  • Seager NP. 2012. Providence, Futurity, and Typology in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. In Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism. New M and Reedy, SJ G (Eds.). Newark DE: University of Delaware Press.
  • Seager NP. 2012. The Rise of the Novel: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • SEAGER NP. 2011. Daniel Defoe, the Novel, the Canon, and The Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins. Eighteenth-Century Novel, vol. 8, 31-59. link>
  • SEAGER NP. 2009. The 1740 Roxana: Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, and Domestic Fiction. Philological Quarterly, vol. 88(1-2), 103-126. link>

Full Publications List show

Books

  • Seager NP. 2012. The Rise of the Novel: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles

  • Seager NP. 2014. John Bunyan and Socinianism. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 64.
  • Seager NP. 2013. Samuel Richardson and the Third Volume of Gulliver's Travels. Swift Studies, vol. 28, 128-136.
  • Seager NP. 2012. "He reviews without Fear, and acts without fainting": Defoe's Review. Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 46.1, 131-142.
  • SEAGER NP. 2011. Daniel Defoe, the Novel, the Canon, and The Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins. Eighteenth-Century Novel, vol. 8, 31-59. link>
  • Seager NP. 2011. Defoe at 350. Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 45, 142-150.
  • SEAGER N. 2009. A Note on Buckeridge's 1740 Edition of Roxana. Digital Defoe, vol. 1, 103-104. link>
  • HAMMOND B and SEAGER N. 2009. Jonathan Swift's Historical Novel: The Memoirs of Capt. John Creichton. Swift Studies, vol. 24, 70-87. link>
  • SEAGER N. 2009. Prudence and Plagiarism in the 1740 Continuation of Defoe's Roxana. The Library, vol. 10.4, 357-371. link>
  • SEAGER NP. 2009. The 1740 Roxana: Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, and Domestic Fiction. Philological Quarterly, vol. 88(1-2), 103-126. link>
  • SEAGER NP. 2008. "A Romance the Likest to Truth that I ever Read": History, Fiction, and Politics in Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 20.4, 479-505. doi> link>
  • SEAGER NP. 2008. Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Fiction and Epistemology in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year. Modern Language Review, vol. 103.3, 639-653. link>

Chapters

  • Seager NP. 2013. Gulliver's Travels Serialized and Continued. In Reading Swift: Papers from the Sixth Muenster Symposium on Jonathan Swift. Juhas K, Real HJ, Simon S (Eds.). Munich: Wilhelm Fink.
  • Seager NP. 2013. Introduction, Annotated Bibliography, and Explanatory Notes. In Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Other Works. London: Wordsworth Classics.
  • Seager NP. 2013. Picaresque and Rogue Narratives. In The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789. Day G, Lynch J, et al (Eds.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Seager NP. 2012. Providence, Futurity, and Typology in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. In Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism. New M and Reedy, SJ G (Eds.). Newark DE: University of Delaware Press.
  • HAMMOND B and SEAGER N. 2010. "I will have you spell right, let the world go how it will": Swift the (Tor)Mentor’. In Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture. Lee AW (Ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate. link>