The Visit with a Thousand Disguises: A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), by Daniel Defoe
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https://doi.org/10.30973/inventio/2022.18.45/7Keywords:
A Journal of The Plague Year, historic novel, black death, pandemic, covid-19, Daniel Defoe, Robinson CrusoeAbstract
The article contains a critical note on Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), a historical novel that narrates the progress of the Black Death that devastated London in 1665. An invitation is extended to read this work (which on March 17, 2022, was three hundred years since its publication), and some points of interest are noted about both its author and the plot of the novel and some implications of associating the noun visit with the advent of the plague. The article is linked to the experience of 21st century mankind in the face of the covid-19 pandemic.
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