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THE GREAT PLAGUE VS COVID 19 - REPRESENTATIONS OF CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS DURING PANDEMIC TIMES
(SGEM WORLD SCIENCE (SWS) Scholarly Society, 2024, Ana-Magdalena Petraru)
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The aim of our paper is to account for the changes that occurred during the Great Plague of London (1665) and the restrictions imposed by authorities, as recorded by (neo)classics such as Daniel Defoe in his Journal of the Plague Year (1722) and Samuel Pepys’s diary (1660-1669) which only came out in the 19th century. Furthermore, we purport to compare them to the most recent pandemic of our times, i.e., COVID 19, seen through the lenses of (post)modern Romanian authors (Jan Cornelius – Aventurile unui calator...
SOCIAL SCIENCES: Section Healthcare, Public Health, and Societal Transformation2024