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A Journal of the Plague Year
Revised Edition
Daniel Defoe
Edited by Louis Landa and David Roberts
304 pages
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one map
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196x129mm
978-0-19-957283-0
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Paperback
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09 September 2010
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- Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is an extraordinary account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the city of London by the Great Plague of 1665 which continues to exert a powerful fascination.
- The lively Introduction relates the Journal to Defoe's best-known work, Robinson Crusoe, and draws on recent research into the publishing environment of the first edition. It considers the portrayal of London, recreated by Defoe to the way it was before the Great Fire, and to its device of fiction masquerading as fact.
- Comprehensive explanatory notes.
- Medical note that explains the relationship between Defoe's medical knowledge and our own.
- Complete topographical index enables the reader to track the Journal's complex references to London's streets, churches, alleyways, and prisons both before and after the Great Fire of 1666.
- Map of Defoe's London.
New to this edition - Newly written Introduction by David Roberts.
- Updated bibliography.
- Revised notes.
- Revised medical note.
- Map.
- Topographical index.
'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches, and then cry'd, Oh! Death, Death, Death!'
Purporting to be an eye-witness account, the Journal of the Plague Year is a record of the devastation wrought by the Great Plague of 1665 on the city of London. Defoe's fictional narrator, known only as 'H. F.', recounts in vivid detail the progress of the disease and the desperate attempts to contain it. He catalogues the rising death toll and the transformation of the city as its citizens flee and those who remain live in fear and despair. Above all it is the stories of appalling human suffering and grief that give Defoe's
extraordinary fiction its compelling historical veracity.
This revised edition includes comprehensive notes, a complete topographical index, and a new introduction to the greatest work of plague literature.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: General readers of historical fiction,
disaster narratives, classic fiction; students of eighteenth-century fiction, the history of the novel, literature and environment, literature and science.
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Daniel Defoe Edited by Louis Landa, Deceased (Professor of English Emeritus, Princeton University), and David Roberts, Professor of English, Birmingham City University
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"The London of an earlier period - 1665 - is brought vividly and pungently back to life." - Cannock and Rugeley Chronicle "Gruesomely compulsive reading." - Colin Waters, Sunday Herald
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