Information and Credibility in A Journal of the Plague Year

This article revisits the presentation and reliability of information in A Journal of the Plague Year, with particular attention to Defoe’s tendency to set up and interrogate problems of how trust and evaluate information under conditions of extreme uncertainty. It applies approaches in social epist...

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Main Author: Hanlon, Aaron R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Illinois State University 2023-01-01
Series:Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries
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Online Access:https://digitaldefoe.org/2022/12/29/information-and-credibility-in-a-journal-of-the-plague-year/