Abstract
Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year from 1722, a partly fictional and partly factual account of the Great Plague of 1665–1666, predominantly in London, is a paradigmatic plague narrative of (Early) Modern Europe. This entry discusses sociability as a theme in the Journal, focusing on the issues of systemic unsociability, the representations of new patterns of epidemic sociability, and the implied phenomenology of sociable impulses triggered by the liminal experience of the plague.
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Lipski, J. (2021). Defoe, Cities and the Plague. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_284-1
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