A Tale of Two Cities has 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(s): Colin Jones, Josephine McDonagh, Jon Mee
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 225
Cover......Page 0
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1 Introduction: A Tale of Two Cities in Context......Page 14
2 The New Philosophy: The Substance and the Shadow in A Tale of Two Cities......Page 37
3 The Redemptive Powers of Violence? Carlyle, Marx and Dickens......Page 54
4 A Genealogy of Dr Manette......Page 77
5 From the Old Bailey to Revolutionary France: The Trials of Charles Darnay......Page 88
6 Face Value in A Tale of Two Cities......Page 100
7 Counting on: A Tale of Two Cities......Page 117
8 Mimi and the Matinée Idol: Martin-Harvey, Sydney Carton and the Staging of A Tale of Two Cities, 1860–1939......Page 139
9 Sanguine Mirages, Cinematic Dreams: Things Seen and Things Imagined in the 1917 Fox Feature Film A Tale of Two Cities......Page 159
10 Two Cities, Two Films......Page 179
11 Afterword......Page 201
Bibliography......Page 208
Notes on Contributors......Page 218
C......Page 220
D......Page 221
J......Page 222
O......Page 223
T......Page 224
Y......Page 225
