A journal of the plague year
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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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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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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A journal of the plague year / |c Daniel Defoe ; edited by Louis Landa ; with an introduction by David Roberts. |
| 250 | |a Rev. ed. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2010. | |
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| 500 | |a "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. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxxi). | ||
| 520 | |a 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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