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

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  • © 2009

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  1. Colin Jones
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  2. Josephine McDonagh
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: A Tale of Two Cities in Context

    • Colin Jones, Josephine McDonagh, Jon Mee
    Pages 1-23

  3. The New Philosophy: The Substance and the Shadow in A Tale of Two Cities

    • Mark Philp
    Pages 24-40

  4. The Redemptive Powers of Violence? Carlyle, Marx and Dickens

    • Gareth Stedman Jones
    Pages 41-63

  5. A Genealogy of Dr Manette

    • Keith Michael Baker
    Pages 64-74

  6. From the Old Bailey to Revolutionary France: The Trials of Charles Darnay

    • Sally Ledger
    Pages 75-86

  7. Face Value in A Tale of Two Cities

    • Kamilla Elliott
    Pages 87-103

  8. Counting On: A Tale of Two Cities

    • John Bowen
    Pages 104-125

  9. Mimi and the Matinée Idol: Martin-Harvey, Sydney Carton and the Staging of A Tale of Two Cities, 1860–1939

    • Joss Marsh
    Pages 126-145

  10. Sanguine Mirages, Cinematic Dreams: Things Seen and Things Imagined in the 1917 Fox Feature Film A Tale of Two Cities

    • Judith Buchanan, Alex Newhouse
    Pages 146-165

  11. Two Cities, Two Films

    • Charles Barr
    Pages 166-187

  12. Afterword

    • Michael Wood
    Pages 188-194

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 195-212
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About this book

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.

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'The book stands as a fascinating and useful contribution both to mid-Victorian fiction studies and to the cultural history of events in France...Overall the book exemplifies thoughtful interdisciplinarity at its best.' - Matthew Ingleby, TLS

About the authors

KEITH BAKER is J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in Humanities at Stanford University, USA CHARLES BARR is Emeritus Professor of Film and Television at the University of East Anglia, UK JOHN BOWEN is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York, UK JUDITH BUCHANAN is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of York, UK KAMILLA ELLIOTT is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University, UK SALLY LEDGER is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JOSS MARSH is Professor of Victorian Studies at Indiana University, USA ALEX NEWHOUSE is researching a Ph.D. at the University of York, UK MARK PHILP is a University Lecturer in Politics and Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford, UK GARETH STEDMAN JONES is Professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge, UK MICHAEL WOOD is Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA

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