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