Daniel Dafoe describes the bubonic plague which made its course through London in 1665. Dafoe discusses daily life in vivid detail and provides a multidimensional perspective on the city of London and its citizens during a time of panic and disease. Dafoe’s is a singular history- he records the rumors, fears, panic, civic disorder, suffering , and death brought on by the plague. Dafoe brings his reader into a world that is not entirely unrecognizable to us, in our moment in history. What did you think when you read the the Journal of the Plague Year What seemed utterly different from our own time and what resonated with you experiences?
