LEADER 04334nam 22007095 450 001 9910725100903321 005 20251008161942.0 010 $a9783031312861$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031312854 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-31286-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7248785 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7248785 035 $a(OCoLC)1379437510 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-31286-1 035 $a(BIP)089945439 035 $a(CKB)26637862300041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926637862300041 100 $a20230512d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDaniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Covid-19 $eA Tale of Two Pandemics /$fby Stuart Sim 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (83 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Sim, Stuart Daniel Defoe's a Journal of the Plague Year and Covid-19 Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031312854 327 $aIntroduction: Societies in Crisis -- A Journal of the Plague Year in the Twenty-First Century -- Narrating the Pandemic: A Journal of the Plague Year -- Narrating the Pandemic: Covid-19 -- Pandemics in Perspective. 330 $a?A useful, original, and timely book, written with rigour, passion, and emotion. It deserves a wide readership among those who believe classic literature can tell us about our own circumstances and help us to work towards solutions to problems of the present.? ?Prof. Nicholas Seager Head of the School of Humanities, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year has taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. Through an exploration of two chronologically distant societies in crisis, this study compares the attitudes, beliefs, and conduct of the public portrayed in the book and those in our own embattled Covid era. There are interesting similarities to note, with equivalents to the Covid-deniers and the anti-vaxxers to be found in Defoe's bleak vision of London in the 1660s as it descends into a state of chaos. JPY offers us some uncomfortable truths about human nature that resonate strongly in our own times, revealing how responding to a pandemic can bring out both the best and the worst in our character as we face up to a world where the old certainties no longer seem to apply. Pandemics expose the fault-lines in ideology, putting the social contract at risk - the question they pose is whether we can continue to rely on our current socio-political set-up or whether it requires a radical rethink. There is a pressing need for more debate on this issue, and this project is designed to make a case for that. Stuart Sim is a retired Professor of Critical Theory at Northumbria University, UK, having previously worked for the Open University and the University of Sunderland. He is widely published in the fields of critical theory, literary studies and philosophy, and is a Fellow of the English Association. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y18th century 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMedicine and the humanities 606 $aSocial history 606 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aSocial policy 606 $aEighteenth-Century Literature 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aMedical Humanities 606 $aSocial History 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 606 $aSocial Policy 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMedicine and the humanities. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aGreat Britain$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial policy. 615 14$aEighteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aMedical Humanities. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aSocial Policy. 676 $a828.508 700 $aSim$b Stuart$0144074 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910725100903321 996 $aDaniel Defoe's a Journal of the Plague Year and Covid-19$93368596 997 $aUNINA