Telling Figures and Telling Feelings: The Geography of Emotions in the London of Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year and Due Preparations for the Plague (1722)
Defoe’s novel A Journal of the Plague Year and its novelistic documentary counterpart Due Preparations for the Plague rely on contemporary statistics to enforce the sense of the emotional and psychological impact of the trauma of the plague. Relying on psychogeography and geocriticism this paper arg...
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| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2012-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/617 |