Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year gives the modern reader insight into the tense atmosphere of disease-infested urban London. However, the most important insights we gain from H.F.’s narrative are his observations on human behaviour, ones that can be applied universally to those who become part of the environment of epidemic. We take a closer look at A journal of the plague year in the opening section. For Foucault, there is no doubt that plague was a vital conceptual and historical bridge between the classical and modern ages; between different institutions; and between 'disciplinary' power and 'biopower'. The triple importance of plague is. For 21 years, we've backed up the Web, so if government data or entire newspapers disappear, we can say: We Got This. Files: HTTP' link in the 'View the book' box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.). DOWNLOAD OPTIONS.

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A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, published in 1722, recounts the plague in London and environs in 1665 (beginning in the fall of 1664). The narrator is known only by the signature 'H. F.' at the end of the narrative (which is a fictional account, as Defoe himself was only four years old at the time of the plague's outbreak). The themes include God and religion, superstition and imagination, and, of course, disease and death.

After the plague arrives from Holland to England between September and November of 1664, the narrator's brother tries to compel him to flee the city and go to the country (as many of the wealthy do). However, the narrator chooses instead to trust his health and safety to God and feels that fleeing the city would be fleeing from God. The narrator unequivocally attributes the plague to God's work.

The journal reflects not only the private thoughts of the narrator, but also stories he hears or encounters during the year of the plague. Many turn to wearing charms to defend against the plague. The narrator cannot believe the number of professed witches and 'quack' doctors who claim to be able either to predict one's future or cure the plague. A fearful population keep papers with spells such as 'abracadabra' written thereon. People's despair leads their imaginations to see apparitions that are not there. The narrator considers it folly to suppose that the plague is caused by an evil spirit, and thus able to be exorcised, rather than the result of God's wrath.

Finally, disease brings out the worst in people. The narrator remembers when a group of men (accustomed to sitting outside of a church, drinking) mocked him as he prayed. They claimed that he did not deserve to live as so many honest men died.

As a practical matter, the narrator supposes that the disease entered houses by means of the servants, who were regularly sent among the crowded streets. The narrator also laments the circumstance that there was only one 'pest-house' (for plague sufferers) in the city. The narrator records that, during the height of the plague (which killed hundreds of thousands according to modern estimates), a thousand people died each day.

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