What is this I don't even....

[eurydicebound]

How can it be that there's no useful journal articles about Defoe and his weird authorship issues in A Journal of a Plague Year??? How can that be???? I want to beat people. Don't you understand I can't cite you if you don't write about this stuff????? *aaaaaaaaauuuuugggghhhh*

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[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

What databases did you look in?

[anaka.livejournal.com]

MLA International Bibliography, Academic Search Complete (which includes JSTOR) OhioLink, the library catalog. This is what happens when you use lesser known books by authors. Lots on Robinson Crusoe, not so much on JOPY.

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

OK. Try the Literature Resource Center. There's some articles that came up on a search there, such as:

Lies, damned lies, and statistics: epistemology and fiction in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year. Nicholas Seager. The Modern Language Review. 103.3 (July 2008) p639. Word Count: 8308. From Literature Resource Center.

Novel streets: the rebuilding of London and Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year.' (English novelist Daniel Defoe)(Making Genre: Studies in the Novel or Something Like It, 1684-1762). Cynthia Wall. Studies in the Novel. 30.2 (Summer 1998) p164. Word Count: 6667. From Literature Resource Center.

A Journal of the Plague Year. Frank H. Ellis. The Review of English Studies. 45.177 (Feb. 1994) p76. Word Count: 4174. From Literature Resource Center.

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

There's also Project Muse:

Intimacy, Survival, and Resistance: Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year
Peter Degabriele
ELH, Volume 77, Number 1, Spring 2010, pp. 1-23 (Article)

Defoe's Journal and the English Plague Writing Tradition
Healy, Margaret, 1955-
Literature and Medicine, Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 25-44 (Article)


Nathaniel Mist, Daniel Defoe, and the Perils of Publishing
Pat Rogers
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Volume 10, Number 3, September 2009, pp. 298-313 (Article)


A Dreadful Heritage: Interpreting Epidemic Disease at Eyam, 1666-2000
Wallis, Patrick.
History Workshop Journal, Issue 61, Spring 2006, pp. 31-56 (Article)

Beyond Belief: The Real Life of Daniel Defoe, and: The Bi-Sexuality of Daniel Defoe: A Psychoanalytic Survey of the Man and His Works (review)
Richetti, John J.
Eighteenth Century Fiction, Volume 20, Number 2, Winter 2007-8, pp. 272-277 (Review)

Infectious Wit: Metaphor, Atheism and the Plague in Eighteenth-Century London
Lund, Roger D., 1949-
Literature and Medicine, Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 45-64 (Article)

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

A quick look online (outside of databases) came up with these:

http://www.helium.com/knowledge/308859-journal-of-the-plague-year

http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/september2003/Sayeau.html

http://www.cjr.org/second_read/the_greatest_liar_1.php

http://www.bmj.com/content/335/7622/725.2

Hope these give you some good leads.

[anaka.livejournal.com]

Got those, actually. Or rather, the Novel streets one doesn't apply to my thesis, the epistemology is being sent, and the Ellis one I haven't reviewed yet, but it's on the saved list. Thank you for looking, though.

[anaka.livejournal.com]

I've been considering that Nathaniel Mist one.... I think I have to go back and review it. The problem I'm having is that most of the stuff I'm finding is about his treatment of London, or of medical stuff, or religious stuff. All of which is very nice, but isn't about his authorship stuff.

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

On the list of links, the last one (BMJ - though it seems to be from a medical journal), from what I saw of it, starts off by questioning that very thing.

[anaka.livejournal.com]

Then I will look further and stop being sulky. :) Thank you, hon.

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. And boy, I can understand your frustration. Try searching through primary Greek and Roman literature sources for info on the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. Even the Perseus Project at Tufts doesn't do so well with indices; I'd had better luck finding references to things Pausanias or Pliny the Elder had said about the temple from other articles people had written!