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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: A Journal of the Plague Year
Author: Daniel DefoePublishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Churchman
Author: The Literary World
Author: A Journal of the Plague Year / Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London Annotated and Illustrated Book with Teacher Edition
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year is a first-individual, generally nonlinear story told by hero H.F., an unmarried saddler whose name is just uncovered by his mark toward the finish of the work. The Journal is a story of his encounters during the plague that beset London in 1665; the work is subsequently fiction however is peppered with insights, information, diagrams, and government reports. H.F. starts by relating gossipy tidbits that the plague had come to Holland, and intently follows the bills of mortality. Certain areas are influenced, yet chilly climate appears to fight off the most exceedingly awful of the plague throughout the winter. Be that as it may, in May and June the quantities of dead start to swing upwards and H.F. begins to ponder whether he should leave the city. After some discussion to and fro, he concludes that God needs him to remain. H.F. sees that the rich are leaving the city and poor people are in effect unequivocally influenced by the distemper. He relates how they surrendered to the wiles of quack specialists, seers, charlatans, and celestial prophets in their dread and tension of the up and coming sickness.
Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature, and Booksellers' Record
Author: Factual Fictions
Author: Leonora FlisPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443824771
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel focuses on contemporary American documentary narratives, specifically the documentary novel, as it re-emerged in the 1960s and later developed into various other forms. The book explores the connections between the documentary novel and the concurrent rise of New Journalism (a.k.a. “literary journalism”) in the United States, situating the two genres in the cultural context of the tumultuous 1960s and an emerging postmodern ethos. Flis makes a comprehensive analysis of texts by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, John Berendt, and Don DeLillo, while tackling discussions on various theoretical complexities with assurance and rigor. Interested in the precarious divide between fact and fiction, the author productively complicates traditional notions of the two poles. Furthermore, the book examines parallels between contemporary Slovene documentary narratives and their American counterparts. Flis’s work, with its systematic and innovative approach to the subject matter, adds an important historical dimension to the developing field of literary journalism studies as well as to the more established area of 20th Century American literature.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
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