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A Journal of the Plague Year

Contents

  • The Text of A Journal of the Plague Year
  • Map: Detail of H.F.’s London
  • A Journal of the Plague Year
  • Backgrounds: The Plague of 1665 and the Threat of 1720–21
  • Orders Conceived and Published by the Lord MAIOR and Aldermen of the City of London, concerning the Infection of the Plague. 1665
  • John Graunt, From Reflections on the Weekly Bills of Mortality and Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality
  • College of Physicians … Necessary Directions for the Prevention and Cure of the PLAGUE in 1665
  • Thomas Vincent, From God’s Terrible Voice in the City
  • Nathaniel Hodges, From Loimologia: Or an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665
  • [Daniel Defoe], From Applebee’s Original Weekly Journal
  • From The Daily Journal
  • The London Gazette, [Quarantine Act of 1721]
  • Richard Mead, A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to be Used to Prevent It
  • Contexts: Reflections on Plagues and Their Effects
  • Thucydides, [The Plague ad Athens]
  • Giovanni Boccaaccio, The First Day
  • Thomas Dekker, From The Wonderful Year
  • Albert Camus, From The Plague
  • Michel Foucault, Panopticism
  • Susan Sontag, From AIDS and Its Metaphors
  • George Whitmore, Epilogue to Someone Was Here
  • Public Information Material About AIDS
  • Criticism
  • Sir Walter Scott, Daniel De Foe
  • Louis A. Landa, [Religion, Science, and Medicine in A Journal of the Plague Year
  • John P. Richetti, Epilogue: A Journal of the Plague Year as Epitome
  • Maximillian E. Novak, Defoe and the Disordered City
  • John Bender, The City and the Rise of the Pernitentiary: A Journal of the Plague Year
  • Michelle Brandwein, Formation, Process, and Transition in A Journal of the Plague Year
  • Daniel Defoe: A Chronology

    Selected Bibliography