A podcast reading of Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, a novel about the plague that afflicted London in 1665.
Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 36 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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Categories | DocumentarySociety & CultureHistory |
Although the London plague was not a pandemic as we now understand the word, for the citizens of that great capital, the experience of it was total. For those that did not flee the disease, the City was the World. In this postscript, I present som... more
Here at the end we find a bit of literary license, for the abatement of the plague is depicted by Defoe as a swift and decisive stroke from heaven, “the immediate finger of God." Suddenly the plague abates, and one week, on a day (a Thursday!) that ... more
Having reached very near the end of his narrative, the author is in a mood to reconcile his accounts, and in a spirit of tolerance he strikes a balanced tone, urging that compassion color the judgments made, particularly of those clergy and physician... more
More on how the decline in the mortality rate put the people of London “past all admonitions.” As in the last episode, the author chronicles the city’s return to the usual vices and immoralities once the danger was perceived to have passed (which it ... more
Here is an account, as they say, “ripped from the headlines.” In the early fall of the year, following a week in which no fewer than 8,200 people died of all diseases, the plague began to abate, and the mortality rate dropped. No sooner did the epide... more
Here continues a brief review of trade during the plague, this time with an emphasis on domestic trade. The author discusses the provision of coal and foodstuffs to the city and the general state of the trades, which naturally suffered tremendously d... more
In a welcome respite from his catalog of horrors, the author looks beyond the streets of London and considers the effect of the disease on trade and commerce, starting here with its impact on foreign trade. London in 1665 was the second most populous... more
Now the author returns to a consideration of the first months of the visitation. How is it, he wonders, if the plague is spread through contact with infected persons, that the bills of mortality recorded such wide gaps, one as long as nine weeks, bet... more
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