SOURCE: "The Plague Narratives of Defoe and Camus: Illness as Metaphor," in Modern Language Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3, September, 1987, pp. 223-41.
In the following essay, Stephanson elucidates the differing symbolic functions served by the plague in two novels: Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Albert Camus's The Plague.
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