Journal of the Plague Year
Defoe, Daniel, Backscheider, Paula R.
ISBN 10: 0393961885 ISBN 13: 9780393961881
Editore: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 1992
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Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Codice articolo 12519649-6
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The authoritative text has been fully annotated and makes available a perennially popular novel, one that has often been mistaken for an actual eyewitness account of the last great plague in England."Backgrounds" encourages comparison of 1665 documents with those of the early 1720s, when England feared a new outbreak of the plague.Included are official government orders and newspaper accounts as well as writings by Defoe, John Graunt, the College of Physicians, and others."Contexts" includes eight comparative pieces united by the theme of a community in crisis.From Thucydides to Boccaccio to modern accounts by Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Susan Sontag, this collection represents some of the most celebrated observers and critics in western civilization who have seen what plagues reveal about human nature."Criticism" reprints seven of the best essays on the novel, including interpretations by Sir Walter Scott, Maximillian E. Novak, John J. Richetti, and John Bender, among others.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Titolo: Journal of the Plague Year
Casa editrice: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Data di pubblicazione: 1992
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good