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Editions

The first edition of A Journal of the Plague Year was published in 1722 and the second in 1755. E. W. Brayley’s 1835 edition was an uncorrected version of the 1722 text and was reprinted many times in the nineteenth century. G. S. Aitken’s 16-volume Romances and Narratives of Daniel Defoe (1894, repr. 1974) includes corrected texts of the Journal and Due Preparations for the Plague and was the basis for the first Everyman Journal of 1908, since replaced by John Man’s New Everyman edition of 1995. Anthony Burgess and Christopher Bristow prepared a modernized text for Penguin in 1966. Louis Landa’s Oxford English Novels edition appeared in 1969 and was reissued with new editorial material by David Roberts in 1990. There are three other modern scholarly editions: Paula R. Backscheider’s 1992 Norton edition, which includes a wide range of useful secondary and contextual material; Cynthia Wall’s 2003 Penguin text, which reprints Burgess’s 1966 introduction as an appendix; and John Mullan’s 2009 edition for the Pickering & Chatto series of Defoe’s major works, under the general editorship of W. R. Owens and P. N. Furbank.

Biography and Bibliography

The most recommendable general studies of Defoe’s life and work are John J. Richetti, The Life of Daniel Defoe (Oxford, 2005), Maximilian E. Novak, Defoe: Master of Fictions (Oxford, 2001), and P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe (London, 2006). Paula R. Backscheider’s Daniel Defoe: His Life (Baltimore, 1989) locates numerous sources not referred to in previous biographies such as John Robert Moore’s Daniel Defoe: Citizen of the Modern World (Bloomington, 1958) and James Sutherland’s still useful Defoe (2nd edn., London, 1950). Defoe’s whereabouts during the Great Plague are discussed in F. Bastian, Defoe’s Early Life (London, 1981), 18–31, and his ‘James Foe, Father of Daniel Defoe’, Notes and Queries, 209 (1964), 83.

P. R. Furbank and W. R. Owens, A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe (London, 1998), and Furbank, The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe (London, 1988) and Defoe’s De-attributions (London, 1994) continue modern debate about the canon of Defoe’s work begun in John Robert Moore, A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe (2nd edn., Bloomington, 1971).