A Journal of the Plague Year

The Plague in London ( Original: A journal of the plague year) is a book by Daniel Defoe, published in the form of a fictitious report 1722. It deals with events during the Great Plague in London in the year 1665th

Content

When the plague for the fourth time in the 17th century struck the city on the Thames, it should be the most devastating epidemic in the British Isles since the first appearance of the disease, the black death in the middle of the 14th century. London was like a boiling pot. Quacks and cutpurse used regardless of the Puritan austerity advantage of the situation to turn the plight of people in hard cash. Hysterical superstition, devastating unemployment, lies and deceit were the concomitants of a mass extinction, around 100,000 people were killed.

Form

Defoe's reportage technology, proven in numerous previous journalistic works, Defoe had already raised in his novel Robinson Crusoe to the narrative style. The realistic representation of a fictional event not only as a tangible, but as an experienced reality was his great strength. Narrated and in the spirit of puritanical self-control reflects from the perspective of a hero make it Defoe has succeeded not only in his adventure novels, but especially in his account of the London plague year, to achieve the highest credibility with his audience - based on detailed research, written sources and eyewitness accounts that he embellished artistically through their own experiences. The book was kept for a longer period for authentic.

Expenditure and edits

• Daniel Defoe, The Plague in London, Ullsteinhaus, Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3548237649
• Radio play (actually radio production from the year 1960), ISBN 3898131823
• Daniel Defoe, A journal of the plague year, ISBN 0486419193

• Literary work
• Literature (18th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Plague
• Work of Daniel Defoe