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A Journal of the Plague Year (Norton Critical Editions) Book

The authoritative text has been fully annotated and makes available a perennially popular novel, one that has often been mistaken for an actual eyewitness account of the last great plague in England."Backgrounds" encourages comparison of 1665 documents with those of the early 1720s, when England feared a new outbreak of the plague.Included are official government orders and newspaper accounts as well as writings by Defoe, John Graunt, the College of Physicians, and others."Contexts" includes eight comparative pieces united by the theme of a community in crisis.From Thucydides to Boccaccio to modern accounts by Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Susan Sontag, this collection represents some of the most celebrated observers and critics in western civilization who have seen what plagues reveal about human nature."Criticism" reprints seven of the best essays on the novel, including interpretations by Sir Walter Scott, Maximillian E. Novak, John J. Richetti, and John Bender, among others.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.Read More

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  • ASDA

    In this edition of Defoe's novel the obvious typographical errors have been corrected and the 18th-century speech modernized yet it remains otherwise unchanged from the original 1722 publication. A background section examines 17th-and 18th-century documents on the plagues.

  • Blackwell

    Defoe's classic reconstruction of the Great Plague of 1665 is the most compelling account of natural disaster in all literature. Narrated by an imaginary 'Citizen who continued all the while in London', A Journal of the Plague Year scans the...

  • 0393961885
  • 9780393961881
  • Daniel Defoe
  • 6 March 1992
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
  • annotated edition
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