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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Spectral Currencies in the Air of Reality:A Journal of the Plague Yearand the History of Apparitions
Beteiligte:
LEWIS, JAYNE ELIZABETH
Erschienen:
University of California Press, 2004
Erschienen in:Representations
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1525/rep.2004.87.1.82
ISSN:
0734-6018;
1533-855X
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<p>ABSTRACT Long recognized as staples of an emergent print culture, English apparition narratives of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries depicted the materialization not only of spiritual forms but also of literature—writing, and especially printed writing—itself. Equally long recognized as an important, if ambiguous, text in the history of the early novel, Daniel Defoe's<italic>Journal of the Plague Year</italic>(1722) is in fact interwoven with contemporary practices of apparition narrative. Read in relation to those practices, the<italic>Journal</italic>opens a metanarrative about the symbolic and epistemological—the literally supernatural—dimensions of the printed page at a pivotal moment in its history.</p>