A journal of the plague year sparknotes5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Is there more that can usefully be said about this most famous pestilence? Stephen Porter’s attractive book shows that there is. Paul Slack’s magisterial treatment of The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985) contains much on this outbreak in the metropole, and Justin Champion’s London’s Dreaded Visitation (London, Centre for Metropolitan History, 1995) has analyzed the geographic and demographic characteristics of the epidemic. In addition to more than a score of articles in the last quarter-century, Walter George Bell’s detailed, but rather antiquarian, work, The Great Plague of London in 1665 (London, John Lane, 1924), has recently been reprinted. The outbreak of bubonic plague in London in 1665 is among the most well-known epidemics in the English-speaking world, in large part because of its vivid novelistic portrayal in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Stroud, Gloucestershire, Great Britain, Sutton Publishing Limited, 2000. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 56.3 (2001) 296-298 ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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