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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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2012-12-01
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| description | 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 argues that Defoe creates a mental map of 1665 London with the statistics supplied by the Bills of Mortality and other contemporary documents. He uses facts, figures and documents for emotional and psychological effect. The theoretical approach of Defoe’s texts that this paper proposes considers them as a brand new territory for emotions, arguing that emotions can be analysed by paying attention to geographical space and spatial organisations and policies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-babcc720c48540f7837bc06b09fb39b02022-12-22T02:46:41ZengSociété d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe sièclesXVII-XVIII0291-37982117-590X2012-12-016916718310.4000/1718.617Telling 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)Emmanuelle PeraldoDefoe’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 argues that Defoe creates a mental map of 1665 London with the statistics supplied by the Bills of Mortality and other contemporary documents. He uses facts, figures and documents for emotional and psychological effect. The theoretical approach of Defoe’s texts that this paper proposes considers them as a brand new territory for emotions, arguing that emotions can be analysed by paying attention to geographical space and spatial organisations and policies.http://journals.openedition.org/1718/617 |
| spellingShingle | Emmanuelle Peraldo 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) XVII-XVIII |
| title | 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) |
| title_full | 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) |
| title_fullStr | 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) |
| title_full_unstemmed | 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) |
| title_short | 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) |
| title_sort | 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 |
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