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9780230537781

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230537781

  • ISBN10:

    0230537782

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-06-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

A Tale of Two Citieshas always been one of Dickens's most popular texts. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this new collection of essays examines the origins of Dickens vision of the French Revolution, the literary power of the text itself, and its enduring place in British culture through stage and screen adaptations.

Author Biography

COLIN JONES, FBA, is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He has published widely on French history, particularly on the French Revolution and the history of medicine. Recent books include The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002) and Paris: Biography of a City (2004).
 
JOSEPHINE MCDONAGH is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Kings College London, UK. She is author of De Quinceys Disciplines (1994), George Eliot (1997) and Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900 (2003).
 
JON MEE is Professor of Romanticism Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Apart from publishing widely on the literature, culture, and politics of the Romantic period, he has co-edited Barnaby Rudge for Oxford Worlds Classics and is currently writing an introduction to Dickens.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: A Tale of Two Cities in Context
The New Philosophy: The Substance and the Shadow in A Tale of Two Cities
The Redemptive Powers of Violence? Carlyle
A Genealogy of Dr Manette
From the Old Bailey to Revolutionary France: The Trials of Charles Darnay
Face Value in A Tale of Two Cities
Counting on: A Tale of Two Cities
Mimi and the MatinFe Idol: Martin-Harvey, Sydney Carton, and the Staging of A Tale of Two Cities , 1860-1939
Sanguine Mirages, Cinematic Dreams: Things Seen and Things Imagined in the 1917 Fox Feature Film A Tale of Two Cities
Two Cities, Two Films
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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