NOVEL STREETS: THE REBUILDING OF LONDON AND DEFOE'S "A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR"

Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year" offers a 1720s reading of the experiential and narrative power of streets as more than simply separations or routes between buildings, but as spaces in their own right, suggesting topographical meaning, offering experiential boundaries, an...

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Published inStudies in the novel Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 164 - 177
Main Author WALL, CYNTHIA
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Denton, Tex University of North Texas 01.07.1998
North Texas State University
Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects
Alleys
British & Irish literature
Cities
Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
English literature
History
Literary criticism
Narratives
Novels
Street names
Street signs
Streets
Token money
Urban areas
Urban space
Written narratives
United Kingdom > UK
England
London England
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Summary:Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year" offers a 1720s reading of the experiential and narrative power of streets as more than simply separations or routes between buildings, but as spaces in their own right, suggesting topographical meaning, offering experiential boundaries, and supplying imaginatively reinhabited urban space.
ISSN:0039-3827
1934-1512