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A Journal of the Plague Year: A Norton Critical Edition Paperback - 1992

by Daniel Defoe; Paula R. Backsheider (Editor)


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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.

From the rear cover

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 streets and alleyways of the stricken capital in its effort to record the appalling suffering of plague victims. At once horrifying and movingly compassionate, it is a nightmare vision of the modern city laid to waste.

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  • Title A Journal of the Plague Year: A Norton Critical Edition
  • Author Daniel Defoe; Paula R. Backsheider (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date 1992-01
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780393961881 / 0393961885
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.32 x 5.16 x 0.78 in (21.13 x 13.11 x 1.98 cm)
  • Reading level 1420
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Plague - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-21599
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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