The dreadful trade : the nature of plague in A Journal of a Plague Year and Due Preparations by Daniel Defoe

Diplôme Master The dreadful trade : the nature of plague in A Journal of a Plague Year and Due Preparations by Daniel Defoe eng 2025-06-13 author Grigoryev Nikita 943201 director Kukorelly Leverington Elizabeth 501238 Département de langue et littérature anglaises (ANGL1) 111 This work analyzes two texts by Daniel Defoe that were published shortly after the Great Plague of Marseille. In both Due Preparations and A Journal of the Plague Year, the narrators explore the ideas of a failing economy and a loss of faith. They link the plague to moral decay in society, describing it as both a biological occurrence related to the risks of international trade and a divine punishment. The plague itself is presented as a form of circulation connected firstly to the concept of credit as an invisible corruption of trade and secondly to the spread of atheism among the population. In this study, I argue that Defoe chose to write about the plague not only because it was a popular topic at the time but also because he was concerned with the idea of moral decay affecting both the body politic and the souls of the people. Daniel Defoe Plague William Harvey Circulation A Journal of the Plague Year Due Preparations Dewey 420/820 Master en langue et littérature anglaises 84 Département de langue et de littérature anglaises 3B false f11dc6a4-0cfc-489c-87b5-403583f68a8e Master thesis Public The_Dreadful_Trade__The_Nature_of_P.pdf 5717797 application/pdf 8f2fdbdbdf1e3b453c1d27b3c693cb3e2d0707f88817a019e9a375cf9ded4a28 openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de langue et de littérature anglaises

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