Outcries of the Everyday: Discipline and Corporeality of the Body in A Journal of the Plague Year
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In A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), the trope of imprisonment sketched through the plague quarantine can be seen as the onset of disciplinary monotony, a necessary condition for the reconstruction of the self. The old method, shutting up of the infected houses, fails to seclude the bodies of the plagued poor, the biggest obstacle blocking panoptic gaze. The narrator H.F. instead proposes voluntary segregation that aims at individual and focused discrimination. From his window that allows a safe distance to look down on the inmates being transformed, H.F. writes his journal, combining the gaze to read spiritual meaning with a bureaucratic eye. As the plague continues to rage, however, authority begins to lose to the uncontainability of the plagued body and the patterns of everyday life. H.F., even if he does not perceive it, is also being contaminated. Dismal outcries piercing his soul brand the trace of the plague in his memory and render him a receiver of the infection. As he cannot stop these screams from penetrating into the Journal, H.F.'s narration oscillates, which undermines his religious reading along with his reliance on administrative efficacy to control the plague. In the end, what the narrator tells the reader, what slips out of his silence, and what is left behind despite the narration is the plagued body.
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In A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), the trope of imprisonment sketched through the plague quarantine can be seen as the onset of disciplinary monotony, a necessary condition for the reconstruction of the self. The old method, shutting up of the infected houses, fails to seclude the bodies of the plagued poor, the biggest obstacle blocking panoptic gaze. The narrator H.F. instead proposes voluntary segregation that aims at individual and focused discrimination. From his window that allows a safe distance to look down on the inmates being transformed, H.F. writes his journal, combining the gaze to read spiritual meaning with a bureaucratic eye. As the plague continues to rage, however, authority begins to lose to the uncontainability of the plagued body and the patterns of everyday life. H.F., even if he does not perceive it, is also being contaminated. Dismal outcries piercing his soul brand the trace of the plague in his memory and render him a receiver of the infection. As he cannot stop these screams from penetrating into the Journal, H.F.'s narration oscillates, which undermines his religious reading along with his reliance on administrative efficacy to control the plague. In the end, what the narrator tells the reader, what slips out of his silence, and what is left behind despite the narration is the plagued body.
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