Stephen O. Duke. The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. Preserve Your Arizona Covid-19 Stories. Editorial. At the time of publication there was alarm that plague in Marseilles could cross into England. Login / Register. Search term. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. "A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive" was recently featured in an ASU Now article, as well as several other news outlets across the country. Speaker Bios Catherine O'Donnell is associate professor of history at Arizona State University. Search term. Advanced Search Citation Search. by Lou Aguilar. We invite you to share your story of how the pandemic has impacted your life by submitting content to the Journal. Overview. Before the end of 1666, the Bubonic Plague will kill roughly one-quarter of the city’s population. The novel is written in the first-person and chronicles the spread of the bubonic plague in London in 1665. FAQ for information about file content and naming conventions. Editor‐in‐Chief. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets of London. A Journal of the Plague Year. The city in question is not Wuhan or Milan or Manhattan. Stephen O. Duke. Skip to Article Information; Search within. Defoe intended the book as a warning. Advanced Search Citation Search. As devastating as this figure is, it could have been much worse. Series title also at head of t.-p First edition published 1722 under title: A journal of the plague year Cover title: History of the plague … A Journal of the Plague Year is Daniel Defoe’s novel of the Great Plague of London in 1665, published fifty-seven years after the event in 1722. The Journal is a tale of his experiences during the plague that afflicted London in 1665; the work is thus fiction but is peppered with statistics, data, charts, and government documents. Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year was first published in 1722. Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year is a first-person, mostly nonlinear narrative told by protagonist H.F., an unmarried saddler whose name is only revealed by his signature at the end of the work. Editor‐in‐Chief. A Journal of the Plague Year . The Arizona Historical Society is partnering with the ASU School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies to contribute to A Journal of the Plague Year: Covid-19 Digital Archive. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Oxford, MS, USA. Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, published in 1722, raises the fact/fiction dilemma yet another notch. 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