This Norton Critical Edition of one of Defoe's greatest works reprints the 1722 text, the only edition published in Defoe's lifetime. The authoritative text has been fully annotated and makes available a perennially popular novel, one that has often been mistaken for an actual eye-witness account of the last great plague in England.

Preface

The Text of A Journal o[ the Plague Year

Map: Detail of H. F.'s London

A 1ournal 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 Mortali

  and Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of

  Mortality

College of Physicians·Necessary Directions for the Preventiol

  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 at Athens]

Giovanni Boccaccio·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 Informational Material about AIDS

Criticism

Sir Walter Scott·Daniel De Foe

Louis A. Landa·[Religion, Science, and Medicine in A

  Journal of the Plague Year]

Everett Zimmerman·H.F.'s Meditations: A ]ournal of the

  Plague Year

John l- Richetti·Epilogue: A Journal o[the Plague

  Year as Epitome

Maximillian E. Novak·Defoe and the Disordered City

John Bender·The City and the Rise of the Penitentiary:

  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