Final session before dinner: Plenary talk by Wolfram Schmidgen #defoe17

Pickles! Previous panel's presenter pickle props. #readerIAteThem #tasty #defoe17

#defoe17 I love this

Great responses to question on beastiality executions. Questioner's class had questions about Mary Higgs #defoe17 http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/theme/Sodomy

Q&A: Sill: Crusoe illustrators often pick up on feminine elements of his dress, echoed by the #c19 actresses playing the role #defoe17

Q&A: Cervantes asks about one of my favourite Crusoe scenes: the Euroepan wolves at the end of the first novel #defoe17

I am yet again being tempted to teach a Defoe or Robsinade class #defoe17

Yay! Button mention!!! #defoe17 Cole: rising pet culture fit colonial discourses, with disturbing ideologies of domestic vs wild dogs/cats

Cole: Crusoe's cats are eradicated like vermin (ie rats) & naval edition uses this to discuss differences between domesticated/wild #defoe17

Cole: island lacks rats, despite their prevalence in many historical accounts & Defoe's description of rat-ruined towns elsewhere #defoe17

Cole: "imperialist vermin" = rats spread by European ventures: damage to ecology via empire. #defoe17

Cole: ships would leave hogs on islands to breed & supply food for future voyagers #defoe17

Sill: Friday as Harlequin & racist caricatures in burlesque. Critics at the time objected to this portrayal (on right) #defoe17

Sill: By 1878 Crusoe was an acceptable role for women, despite earlier criticism #defoe17

Sill on women's Robinsades, focusing on #c19 burlesque, pantomime, melodrama. #defoe17

Now for the afternoon panels #defoe17

Stevens: if we truly want indigenous lit to be part of early Am studies we need to train more like medievalists #defoe17

Rasmussen points to how new technology has made pictoraphy more accessible to a larger audience familiar with Unicode & emojis #defoe17

Wyss: "Thinking Past [Defoe's] Friday" calls on literary scholars to go beyond colonial fantasies & seek indigenous voices #defoe17

Stevens: via Brit & Natik genres, it argues that fulfilling Natik requests will make colonists the benefactors they claim to be #defoe17 3/3

Stevens pts to the petition's rhetorical density, including a defense of an Natik interpreter of the English sermons #defoe17 2/

Stevens: Natik petition adheres to colonial forms in asking to keep their minister & for the New England to pay him more 1/ #defoe17

Next @lauramstevens shares new research on "missionary fantasy" writing, which builds on her previous book http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14095.html #defoe17

Rasmussen: digital tools offer new ways to broaden definitions of American literature in scholarship & the classroom #defoe17

Rasmussen: scholar shoutouts #defoe17 www.umass.edu/umpress/title/early-nati... https://nyupress.org/books/9780814797532/ www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/201... http://www.naisa.org/

Rasmussen points to the ways recent work in #indigenousStudies challenges colonial binary of European literacy vs native illiteracy #defoe17

#defoe17 Rasmussen draws on book history methods as a way of recovering the material history of these texts

#defoe17 Rasmussen on difficulty of wking w/ indigenous material largely mediated by colonial collectors, commentaries #readAgainstTheGrain

Birgit Brander Rasmussen: What would it mean to acknowledge that N. America has a written literary culture as old as England? #defoe17

Final question links long #c18 sieges to issues of intolerance & sieges today #defoe17