Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2025, 8(6); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2025.080606.
Jiaying Li
Institute of Humanities and Foreign Languages, Zhejiang Shuren University, Hangzhou, 310015, China
"A Journal of the Plague Year" allows the world to see the social contradictions and human crises exposed by the desperate survival of London citizens who have transitioned from feudal society to capitalist society. Plague literature is one of the results of the interaction between epidemic diseases and human civilization, which clearly represents human panic, imagination and understanding of plague. Literature is also an important position in the complex and numerous reflections on space. Plague literature is one of the results of the interaction between epidemic diseases and human civilization, which clearly represents human panic, imagination and understanding of plague. Taking the background of big data as a reference, this paper constructs an evaluation parameter model of literary translation level based on aesthetic thoughts. Through the narrative analysis of plague in daniel defoe's Chronicle of the Plague, this paper studies the world-building role of plague writing in daniel defoe in establishing modern medical concepts, spreading epidemic prevention knowledge and expounding ethical enlightenment. The plague narrative of this article not only allows readers to spy on various class representatives in the plague society, but also allows future generations to see the social contradictions and human crisis exposed by people who lived in the transition period from feudal society to capitalist society in the desperate survival process.
“A Journal of the Plague Year”; Big Data; Literature Eliminates Disasters; World Construction
Jiaying Li. The Analysis of Literary Avoidance and Creation in Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year” Based on Big Data. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2025), Vol. 8, Issue 6: 41-50. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2025.080606.
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