A Journal of the Plague Year (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Daniel Foe
- First Published: 1722
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1664-1665
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Courage, Doctors, Seventeenth century, Death or dying, London, Nursing or nurses, Gossip, Plague
- Locales: London, England
Places Discussed
*London. Capital of England. In the voice of his thorough and even brilliantly factual narrator, who is a middle- class businessman and maker of saddles, Defoe educates the reader about numerous urban details governing the eighty to one hundred square miles of London at the time of the story. The population then was nearly 500,000 people, of whom about 20 percent died from the plague in 1665. Perhaps the most lurid detail, which lends itself nicely to statistics and charts in the text, is the weekly toll of deaths recorded as the Bills of Mortality by parish...
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Daniel Defoe (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Daniel Defoe (Censorship)Daniel Defoe (Dictionary of World Biography)Daniel Defoe (Long Fiction)
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