Preface

The Text of A Journal o[ the Plague Year

Map: Detail of H. F.'s London

A 1ournal of the Plague Year

Backgrounds: The Plague of 1665 and the Threat of 1720-21

Orders Conceived and Published by the Lord MAIOR and

Aldermen of the City of London, concerning the Infection

of the Plague. 1665.

John Graunt?From Reflections on the Weekly Bills of Mortali

and Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of

Mortality

College of Physicians?Necessary Directions for the Preventiol

and Cure of the PLAGUE in 1665

Thomas Vincent?From God's Terrible Voice in the City

Nathaniel Hodges?From Loimologia: Or, an Historical

Account of the Plague in London in 1665

[Daniel Defoe]?From Applebee's Original Weekly Journal

From The Daily Journal

The London Gazette?[Quarantine Act of 1721]

Richard Mead?A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential

Contagion, and the Methods to be Used to Prevent It

Contexts: Reflections on Plagues and Their Effects

Thucydides?[The Plague at Athens]

Giovanni Boccaccio?The First Day

Thomas Dekker?From The Wonderful Year

Albert Camus?From The Plague

Michel Foucault?Panopticism

Susan Sontag?From AIDS and Its Metaphors

George Whitmore?Epilogue to Someone Was Here

Public Informational Material about AIDS

Criticism

Sir Walter Scott?Daniel De Foe

Louis A. Landa?[Religion, Science, and Medicine in A

Journal of the Plague Year]

Everett Zimmerman?H.F.'s Meditations: A ]ournal of the

Plague Year

John l- Richetti?Epilogue: A Journal o[the Plague

Year as Epitome

Maximillian E. Novak?Defoe and the Disordered City

John Bender?The City and the Rise of the Penitentiary:

A Journal of the Plague Year

Michelle Brandwein?Formation, Process, and Transition

in A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe: A Chronology

Selected Bibliograph