A Journal of the Plague Year

Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-19-957283-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 197 mm, Gewicht: 226 g

Reihe: Oxford World's Classics

'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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Defoe, Daniel

Roberts, David

Landa, Louis

Weitere Mitwirkende

Roberts, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Louis Landa, Deceased (Professor of English Emeritus, Princeton University), and David Roberts, Professor of English, Birmingham City University