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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Illinois State University
2023-01-01
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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/ |