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Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe
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Description for Journal of the Plague Year
Paperback. This Norton Critical Edition of one of Defoe's most important works reprints the 1722 text, the only edition published in Defoe's lifetime. Editor(s): Backsheider, Paula R. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 132 x 211 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Series
Norton Critical Editions
Condition
New
Weight
369g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393961881
SKU
V9780393961881
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About Daniel Defoe
Paula R. Backsheider is Professor of English at the University of Rochester, where she has taught since 1975. Her biography, Daniel Defoe: His Life, won the 1990 British Council Prize for the Best Book in the Humanities. She is also the author of Daniel Defoe: Ambition and Innovation; A Being More Intense: The Prose Works of Bunyan, Swift, and Defoe; ... Read more
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