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Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (2006). A political biography of Daniel Defoe. Eighteenth century political biographies. London, UK: Pickering & Chatto.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1998). A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe. London: Pickering and Chatto.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1994). Defoe De-Attributions: A Critique of J. R. Moore's 'Checklist'. London and Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1988). The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Spackman, I. J.; Owens, W. R. and Furbank, P. N. (1987). A KWIC Concordance to Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'. New York and London: Garland Publishing.

Owens, W. R. and Furbank, P. N. (1985). A KWIC Concordance to Daniel Defoe's 'Moll Flanders'. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. New York and London: Garland.

Towheed, Shafquat and Owens, W. R. eds. (2011). The History of Reading, Volume 1: International Perspectives, c.1500-1990. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

da Sousa Correa, Delia and Owens, W. R. eds. (2010). The Handbook to Literary Research. Abingdon: Routledge.

Owens, W. R. and Sim, Stuart eds. (2007). Reception, Appropriation, Recollection: Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Religions and Discourse, 33. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Owens, W.R. ed. (2003). John Bunyan,'The Pilgrim's Progress'. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Owens, W. R. and Furbank, P. N. eds. (2000). Dissent. Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe, 3. London: Pickering and Chatto.

Owens, W. R. and Furbank, P. N. eds. (2000). Social Reform. Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe, 8. London: Pickering and Chatto.

Owens, W. R. and Furbank, P. N. eds. (2000). The Works of Daniel Defoe. London: Pickering and Chatto.

Owens, W.R. and Johnson, Hamish eds. (1998). Romantic Writings: An Anthology. Milton Keynes, U.K.: The Open University.

Eliot, Simon and Owens, W.R. eds. (1998). A Handbook to Literary Research. London: Routledge.

Owens, W. R. and Goodman, Lizbeth eds. (1996). Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon. London, U.K. and New York, NY, U.S.: Routledge.

Englander, David; Norman, Diana; O'Day, Rosemary and Owens, William eds. (1990). Culture and Belief in Europe 1450-1600: An Anthology of Sources. Oxford, U.K.: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Laurence, Anne; Owens, W. R. and Sim, Stuart eds. (1990). John Bunyan and his England 1628-88. London: The Hambledon Press.

Martin, Graham and Owens, W. R. eds. (1988). Literature and Liberation: Selected Essays. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press.

Owens, W. R. ed. (1980). Seventeenth Century England: A Changing Culture Vol 2 Modern Studies. London, U.K.: Ward Lock Educational.

Towheed, Shafquat and Owens, W. R. (2011). Introduction. In: Towheed, Shafquat and Owens, W. R. eds. The History of Reading, Volume 1: International Perspectives, c.1500-1990. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1–12.

Owens, W.R. (2010). John Bunyan and the Bible. In: Dunan-Page, Anne ed. The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 39–50.

Owens, W. R. (2010). Master's-level study in Literature at The Open University: pedagogic challenges and solutions. In: Kayalis, Takis and Natsina, Anastasia eds. Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning. London: Continuum, pp. 33–43.

Owens, W. R. (2010). Glossary. In: Owens, W. R. and Da Sousa Correa, Delia eds. The Handbook to Literary Research. Routledge, pp. 207–223.

Owens, W. R. (2010). Editing literary texts. In: Owens, W. R. and Da Sousa Correa, Delia eds. The Handbook to Literary Research. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 69–86.

Owens, W. R. (2010). Planning, writing and presenting a dissertation or thesis. In: Owens, W. R. and Da Sousa Correa, Delia eds. The Handbook to Literary Research. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 187–203.

Owens, W. R. (2009). The Canon and the curriculum. In: Gupta, Suman and Katsarska, Milena eds. English Studies On This Side: Post-2007 Reckonings. Plovdiv, Bulgaria: Plovdiv University Press, pp. 47–59.

Owens, W. R. (2005). Readings. In: Anderson, Linda ed. Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp. 411–647.

Owens, W.R. (2004). Beaumont, Agnes (bap. 1652, d. 1720). In: Matthew, H C G and Harrison, Brian eds. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 648–649.

Owens, W. R. (2002). Reading the bibliographical codes: Bunyan's publication in folio. In: Keeble, N. H. ed. John Bunyan: reading dissenting writing. Religions and discourse (12). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, pp. 59–77.

Owens, W. R. (2000). John Bunyan and English Millenarianism. In: Gay, D.; Randall, J. G. and Zinck, A. eds. Awakening Words: John Bunyan and the Language of Community. Newark: University of Delaware Press and Associated University Presses, pp. 81–96.

Owens, W. R. (1996). Shakespeare: Theatre Poet. In: Owens, W. R. and Goodman, Lizbeth eds. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon. London, U.K. and New York, NY, U.S.: Routledge, pp. 21–33.

Owens, W. R. (1996). Remaking the Canon: Aphra Behn's The Rover. In: Owens, W. R. and Goodman, Lizbeth eds. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon. London, U.K. and New York, NY, U.S.: Routledge, pp. 131–175.

Owens, W. R. (1996). Aphra Ben, The Rover, in Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon. In: Owens, W. R. and Goodman, Lizbeth eds. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon. London, U.K. and New York, NY, U.S.: Routledge, pp. 261–334.

Owens, W. R. (1996). Research Techniques and the Use of Libraries. In: Eliot, Simon and Owens, W. R. eds. A Handbook to Literary Research. London, U.K. and New York, NY, U.S.: Routledge, pp. 13–18.

Owens, W. R. (1990). Antichrist must be pulled down: Bunyan and the millennium. In: Laurence, Anne; Owens, W. R. and Sim, Stuart eds. John Bunyan and his England 1628-1688. London: The Hambledon Press, pp. 77–104.

Owens, W. R. (1990). The reception of The Pilgrim's Progress in England. In: Os van, M and Schute, G. J. eds. Bunyan in England and Abroad. Amsterdam: VU University Press, pp. 91–104.

Owens, W.R. (1988). Bunyan, John 1628-88. In: Ousby, Ian ed. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 140–142.

Owens, W.R. (1988). Pilgrim's progress, The: from this world to that which is to come. In: Ousby, Ian ed. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 780–781.

Owens, W. R. (1983). Jane Barker, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland, Mary Cary, Anne Collins, Elizabeth Colville Lady Collville of Culross, Lady Eleanor Douglas, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Grymeston, Susanna Hopton, Anne Killigrew, Emilia Lanier, Jane Lead, Katherine Philips, Elizabeth Polwhele, Mary Sidney Countess of Pembroke, Anna Trapnel, Margaret Tyler, Elizabeth Warren, Anne Wentworth, Anne Wharton, Lady Mary Wroth. In: Crawford, Anne; Hayter, Tony; Hughes, Ann; Prochaska, Frank; Stafford, Pauline and Vallance, Elizabeth eds. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women: Over 1000 notable women from Britain's past. London, U.K.: Europa Publications Limited.

Owens, W.R. (1982). Arnold Kettle: a select bibliography 1939-1981. In: Jefferson, Douglas and Martin, Graham eds. The Uses of Fiction: Essays on the Modern Novel in Honour of Arnold Kettle. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, pp. 287–296.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (2002). Defoe's £17,000 bankruptcy. Notes and Queries, 247(3) pp. 363–364.

Owens, W.R. and Furbank, P. N. (2002). Stylometry and the Defoe canon: a reply to Irving Rothman. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 96(3) pp. 463–465.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (2001). Defoe and King William: a sceptical enquiry. Review of English Studies, 52(206) pp. 227–232.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (2001). Defoe's South-Sea and North-Sea schemes: a footnote to A New Voyage Round the World. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 13 pp. 501–508.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (2000). Defoe, the De la Faye letters and Mercurius Politicus. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 23(1) pp. 13–19.

Owens, W. R. and Furbank, P. N. (1998). New light on John Pierce, Defoe's agent in Scotland. Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions, 6(4) pp. 134–143.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1998). Defoe and the sham Flying-Post. Publishing History, 43 pp. 5–15.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1997). The dating of Defoe's "Atlantis Major". Notes and Queries, 242(2) pp. 189–190.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1997). The lost continuation of Defoe's Roxana. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 9(3) pp. 229–308.

Furbank, P N and Owens, W R (1997). The Defoe that never was: a tale of de-attribution. The American Scholar, 66(2) pp. 276–284.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1997). Whence the Defoe Canon? Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 9(2) pp. 223–225.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1997). The Myth of Defoe as 'Applebee's Man'. Review of English Studies, 48(190) pp. 198–204.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1996). On the attribution of periodicals and newspapers to Daniel Defoe. Publishing History, 40 pp. 83–98.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1995). Daniel Defoe and A Letter from a Gentleman at the Court of St Germains (1710). Etudes Anglaises, 48 pp. 61–66.

Owens, W. R. and Furbank, P. N. (1995). Sir Alexander Cumming and Defoe's Mercator. Notes and Queries, 42(4) pp. 454–455.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1994). "A True Account of the Proceedings at Perth": The impact of an historical novel. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 6(3) pp. 233–242.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1994). Defoe and 'Sir Andrew Politick'. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 17(1) pp. 27–39.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1993). Defoe and A Curious Little Oration Deliver'd by Father Andrew. Notes and Queries, 238(3) p. 328.

Owens, W. R. and Furbank, P. N. (1993). Defoe as secret agent: three unpublished letters. The Scriblerian, 25(2) pp. 145–153.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1993). Defoe and the 'Tippony Ale'. Scottish Historical Review, 72(1) pp. 86–89.

Furbank, P.N. and Owens, W. R. (1993). Defoe, William Hendley, and Charity Still a Christian Virtue (1719). Huntington Library Quarterly, 56(3) pp. 327–330.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1993). Defoe, Trent, and the 'Defection'. Review of English Studies, 44(173) pp. 70–76.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1992). The Lost Property Office: some Defoe attributions reconsidered. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 86 pp. 245–267.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1992). Defoe and Francis Noble. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 4(4) pp. 301–313.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1991). Dangerous Relations. The Scriblerian, 23 pp. 242–244.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1988). William Lee of Sheffield: Sanitary Reformer and Defoe Bibliographer. The Book Collector, 37(2) pp. 185–206.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1988). The Defoe canon again. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 82 pp. 95–98.

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Owens, W. R. (1986). The date of Bunyan's "Treatise of Antichrist". The Seventeenth Century, 1(2) pp. 153–157.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1986). Defoe and the 'improvisatory' sentence. English Studies, 67(2) pp. 157–166.

Owens, W. R. and Furbank, P. N. (1986). Defoe and the Dutch Alliance: some attributions examined. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 9(1) pp. 169–182.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1986). What if Defoe did not write the "History of the Wars of Charles XII"? Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 80 pp. 333–347.

Owens, W. R. and Furbank, P. N. (1986). Defoe and imprisonment for debt: Some attributions reviewed. Review of English Studies, 37(148) pp. 495–502.

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (1984). "A Vindication of the Press" (1718): Not by Defoe? Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 78(3) pp. 355–360.

Owens, W. R. (1983). A critical edition of John Bunyan's posthumously published treatise Of Antichrist, and His Ruine (1692). PhD thesis The Open University.

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Owens, W. R., ed. Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel Defoe (1719). London, Pickering & Chatto (2008).

Owens, W. R., ed. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel Defoe (1719). London, Pickering & Chatto (2008).

Owens, W. R., ed. Daniel Defoe, The Compleat English Gentleman and Of Royal Education. By Daniel Defoe (1729). London, UK, Pickering & Chatto (2007).

Owens, W. R., ed. Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel Defoe (1719). London, Pickering & Chatto (2007).

Owens, W. R., ed. A New Family Instructor. By Daniel Defoe (1727). London, Pickering & Chatto (2006).

Owens, W. R., ed. The true-born Englishman and other poems. By Daniel Defoe . London, Pickering & Chatto (2003).

Furbank, Philip Nicholas and Owens, W. R., eds. The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings. By Daniel Defoe . London, Penguin Books (1997).

Owens, W. R., ed. The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan: Volume XII. By John Bunyan . Oxford, Clarendon Press (1994).

Owens, W. R., ed. The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan, Vol.13. By John Bunyan (1692). Oxford, Clarendon Press (1994).

Furbank, P. N.; Owens, W. R. and Coulson, A. J., eds. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. By Daniel Defoe (1724). New Haven, Yale University Press (1991).

Owens, W., ed. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. By John Bunyan (1666). Harmondsworth, Penguin Books (1987).