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Preview — London's Dreadful Visitation, Or, a Collection of All the Bills of Mortality for This Present Year Beginning the 20th of December,and Ending the 19th of December Following by John Graunt4/5(1).

The Most Dreadful Visitation Book Description: Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society.

'The Most Dreadful Visitation': Male Madness in Victorian Fiction. Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society.

The dreadful visitation in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague, the last time it spread in the city of London in the year extracted from the memoirs of a person who resided there, during the whole time of the infection: with some thoughts on the advantage which would result to Christianity, if a spirit of impartiality and true charity was suffered to preside amongst the several.

The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction. The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction. Excerpt. Inwhilst he was staying in New York, Charles Dickens visited a lunatic asylum on Long Island or Rhode Island ('I forget which').

people on whose minds has fallen ‘the most dreadful visitation to which our nature is exposed’, 2 and they need and deserve a wholesome and stim-ulating environment if they are to be restored to full humanity.

Madness for nineteenth-century writers was both an alien state of mind and some-thing that could afflict ‘our nature’ at any time. Title page to London's Dreadful Visitation, or, A Collection of all the Bills of Mortality for this Present Year Three years before the Great Plague ravaged London and Cotes published her book, founder of statistical science John Graunt published his Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made upon the Bills of Mortality ().

The Visitation has a very interesting premise and it is an all-around good novel. I think the only reason why someone might not enjoy it so much is the fact that it's dragged I didn't know what I was going to get myself into - reading a well known Christian author's novel for the first time/5.

The dreadful visitation, in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague, the last time it spread in the city of London, in the year/ Bibliographic Details Main Author. The Dreadful Visitation: in a Short Account of the Progress and Effects of the Plague, the Last Time It Spread in the City of London in the Year by Daniel Defoe Seller.

The dreadful visitation, in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague: the last time it spread in the city of London, in the yearextracted from the memoirs of a person who resided there during the whole time of that infection.

by Defoe, Daniel, ?; Crukshank, Joseph, ?, printer. The dreadful visitation, in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague: the last time it spread in the city of London, in the year ; extracted from the memoirs of a gentleman who resided there during the whole time of that infection: with some thoughts on the advantage which would result to Christianity.

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Smallpox, the history of which dates back to antiquity, was a devastating disease causing dreadful epidemics and pandemics affecting millions of people.

It was, like plague, considered ineluctable or as visitation of God’s wrath for a sinful by: Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society.

But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative : Valerie Pedlar.

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Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a.The Dreadful Visitation in A Short Account of the Progress and Effects of the Plague, The last Time it spread in the City of London in the Yearextracted from the Memoirs of a Person who resided there, during the whole time of that Infection "This book is an account of one man's experiences inthe year in which the bubonic Author: Daniel DEFOE.In his remarkable book, A Journal of the Plague Year, written inDaniel Defoe mixes historical records and his own personal experiences to recount the “dreadful visitation” of the bubonic plague as it swept across London in the year Such dreadful visitations of microbial plagues are hardly a thing of the past.

Leprosy, malaria, tuberculosis, the plague, and others, still haunt.