A Journal of the Plague Year

Description

The Plague is a disease that has a long and tragic history alongside humanity's development of tightly-packed cities. A Journal of a Plague Year is a first-person narrative account of London's last great plague outbreak in 1665, which killed an estimated 100,000 people in just 18 months.
Though written in the first-person perspective by Daniel Defoe, he was only 5 years old during the outbreak. The initials at the end of the work, "H. F.," suggest that Journal is based on accounts of Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe.
This highly readable short novel is fascinating not just as a historical account, but in its description of how people reacted to a deadly disease that they understood to be contagious, but yet had no cure for. Defoe derides quack doctors who killed more than they saved, and then themselves succumbed to plague. He tells of people turning to religion; of people driven mad by the death around them and raving in the streets; of people fleeing to the country, and of others barricading themselves in their homes. The ways people reacted in 1665 could be the very same ways people might have reacted today to a mysterious, deadly, and highly contagious outbreak.

Détails

Auteur: Frontignières

Editeur: Culturea

Format: Broché

Presentation: Broché

Date de parution: 11 Janvier 2023

Nombre de pages: 240

Dimensions: 14,8 x 21 x 1,3

Prix publique: 18,95 €

Information complémentaires

Classification: Littérature générale > Romans

Code Classification: 3435 > 3442

EAN-13: 9791041800131