A journal of the plague year
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Published:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Format:
Book
Edition:
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc:
xxxvii, 265 pages ; 20 cm.
Rating:
1420L
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Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of the time; the mass panics of a frightened citizenry; and the solitary travails of Defoe's narrator, a man who decides to remain in the city through it all, chronicling the course of events with an unwavering eye. Defoe's Journal remains perhaps the greatest account of a natural disaster ever written. A novel recounting the individual tragedies of the great plague of 1665.

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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780199572830, 0199572836

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General Note
"This edition includes: Introduction -- Textual note -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Medical note -- Explanatory notes -- Topographical index -- Map. Edited with notes by Louis Landa. With a new introduction by David Roberts"--Page 4 of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxxi).
Description
Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of the time; the mass panics of a frightened citizenry; and the solitary travails of Defoe's narrator, a man who decides to remain in the city through it all, chronicling the course of events with an unwavering eye. Defoe's Journal remains perhaps the greatest account of a natural disaster ever written. A novel recounting the individual tragedies of the great plague of 1665.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Defoe, D., & Landa, L. A. (2010). A journal of the plague year. Rev. ed. New York, Oxford University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 and Louis A. Landa. 2010. A Journal of the Plague Year. New York, Oxford University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 and Louis A. Landa, A Journal of the Plague Year. New York, Oxford University Press, 2010.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Defoe, Daniel and Louis A. Landa. A Journal of the Plague Year. Rev. ed. New York, Oxford University Press, 2010.

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