Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) PDF
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9780230_537781_01_prexii.tex 28/4/2009 10:57 Pagei PalgraveStudiesinNineteenth-CenturyWritingandCulture GeneralEditor:JosephBristow,ProfessorofEnglish,UCLA EditorialAdvisoryBoard:HilaryFraser,BirkbeckCollege,Universityof London;JosephineMcDonagh,KingsCollegeLondon; YopiePrins,UniversityofMichigan;LindsaySmith,UniversityofSussex; MargaretD.Stetz,UniversityofDelaware;JennyBourneTaylor, UniversityofSussex PalgraveStudiesinNineteenth-CenturyWritingandCultureisanewmonograph seriesthataimstorepresentthemostinnovativeresearchonliteraryworks thatwereproducedintheEnglish-speakingworldfromthetimeofthe NapoleonicWarstothefindesiècle.Attentivetothehistoricalcontinuities between‘Romantic’and‘Victorian’,theserieswillfeaturestudiesthathelp scholarshiptoreassessthemeaningofthesetermsduringacenturymarked bydiversecultural,literary,andpoliticalmovements.Themainaimofthe seriesistolookattheincreasinginfluenceoftypesofhistoricismonour understandingofliteraryformsandgenres.Itreflectstheshiftfromcritical theorytoculturalhistorythathasaffectednotonlytheperiod1800–1900 butalsoeveryfieldwithinthedisciplineofEnglishliterature.Alltitlesinthe seriesseektoofferfreshcriticalperspectivesandchallengingreadingsofboth canonicalandnon-canonicalwritingsofthisera. Titlesinclude: EitanBar-YosefandNadiaValman(editors) ‘THEJEW’INLATE-VICTORIANANDEDWARDIANCULTURE BetweentheEastEndandEastAfrica HeikeBauer ENGLISHLITERARYSEXOLOGY TranslationsofInversions,1860–1930 LaurelBrakeandJulieF.Codell(editors) ENCOUNTERSINTHEVICTORIANPRESS Editors,Authors,Readers ColetteColligan THETRAFFICINOBSCENITYFROMBYRONTOBEARDSLEY SexualityandExoticisminNineteenth-CenturyPrintCulture DennisDenisoff SEXUALVISUALITYFROMLITERATURETOFILM,1850–1950 LauraE.Franey VICTORIANTRAVELWRITINGANDIMPERIALVIOLENCE LawrenceFrank VICTORIANDETECTIVEFICTIONANDTHENATUREOFEVIDENCE TheScientificInvestigationsofPoe,DickensandDoyle YvonneIvory THEHOMOSEXUALREVIVALOFRENAISSANCESTYLE,1850–1930 ColinJones,JosephineMcDonaghandJonMee(editors) CHARLESDICKENS,ATALEOFTWOCITIESANDTHEFRENCHREVOLUTION 9780230_537781_01_prexii.tex 28/4/2009 10:57 Pageii JarlathKilleen THEFAITHSOFOSCARWILDE Catholicism,FolkloreandIreland StephanieKudukWeiner REPUBLICANPOLITICSANDENGLISHPOETRY,1789–1874 KirstenMacLeod FICTIONSOFBRITISHDECADENCE HighArt,PopularWritingandtheFindeSiècle DianaMaltz BRITISHAESTHETICISMANDTHEURBANWORKINGCLASSES,1870–1900 CatherineMaxwellandPatriciaPulham(editors) VERNONLEE Decadence,Ethics,Aesthetics MuireannO’Cinneide ARISTOCRATICWOMENANDTHELITERARYNATION,1832–1867 DavidPayne THEREENCHANTMENTOFNINETEENTH-CENTURYFICTION Dickens,Thackeray,GeorgeEliotandSerialization JuliaReid ROBERTLOUISSTEVENSON,SCIENCE,ANDTHEFINDESIÈCLE AnneStiles(Editor) NEUROLOGYANDLITERATURE,1860–1920 CarolineSumpter THEVICTORIANPRESSANDTHEFAIRYTALE AnaParejoVadillo WOMENPOETSANDURBANAESTHETICISM PassengersofModernity PhyllisWeliver THEMUSICALCROWDINENGLISHFICTION,1840–1910 Class,CultureandNation PaulYoung GLOBALIZATIONANDTHEGREATEXHIBITION TheVictorianNewWorldOrder PalgraveStudiesinNineteenth-CenturyWritingandCulture SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–3–333–97700–2(hardback) (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastanding order.Pleasecontactyourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetousattheaddress belowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesandtheISBNquotedabove. CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS,England 9780230_537781_01_prexii.tex 28/4/2009 10:57 Pageiii Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution Editedby Colin Jones, Josephine McDonagh and Jon Mee 9780230_537781_01_prexii.tex 28/4/2009 10:57 Pageiv Introduction,selectionandeditorialmatter©ColinJones,Josephine McDonagh&JonMee2009 Individualchapters©contributors2009 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorshaveassertedtheirrightstobeidentified astheauthorsofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright,Designs andPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2009by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, Hampshire RG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN-13:978 0 230 53778 1 hardback ISBN-10:0 230 53778 2 hardback Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData CharlesDickens,aTaleoftwocitiesandtheFrenchRevolution/ editedbyColinJones,JosephineMcDonaghandJonMee. p.cm.—(Palgravestudiesinnineteenth-centurywritingandculture) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978–0–230–53778–1 ISBN-10:0–230–53778–2 1. Dickens,Charles,1812–1870—Criticismandinterpretation. 2. Dickens,Charles,1812–1870.Taleoftwocities. 3. France—History— Revolution,1789–1799—Literatureandtherevolution. 4. Dickens,Charles, 1812–1870—Characters. 5. Englishliterature—Frenchinfluences. 6. Englishliterature—19thcentury—Historyandcriticism. I. Jones, Colin. II. McDonagh,Josephine. III. Mee,Jon. PR4571.C472009 823’.8—dc22 2008042644 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby CPIAntonyRowe,ChippenhamandEastbourne 9780230_537781_01_prexii.tex 28/4/2009 10:57 Pagev InmemoryofSallyLedger This page intentionally left blank 9780230_537781_01_prexii.tex 28/4/2009 10:57 Pagevii Contents ListofIllustrations ix ListofAbbreviations x Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction:ATaleofTwoCitiesinContext 1 ColinJones,JosephineMcDonaghandJonMee 2 TheNewPhilosophy:TheSubstanceandtheShadowin 24 ATaleofTwoCities MarkPhilp 3 TheRedemptivePowersofViolence?Carlyle, 41 MarxandDickens GarethStedmanJones 4 AGenealogyofDrManette 64 KeithMichaelBaker 5 FromtheOldBaileytoRevolutionaryFrance: 75 TheTrialsofCharlesDarnay SallyLedger 6 FaceValueinATaleofTwoCities 87 KamillaElliot 7 Countingon:ATaleofTwoCities 104 JohnBowen 8 MimiandtheMatinéeIdol:Martin-Harvey,Sydney 126 CartonandtheStagingofATaleofTwoCities,1860–1939 JossMarsh 9 SanguineMirages,CinematicDreams:ThingsSeenand 146 ThingsImaginedinthe1917FoxFeatureFilm ATaleofTwoCities JudithBuchananwithAlexNewhouse vii 9780230_537781_01_prexii.tex 28/4/2009 10:57 Pageviii viii Contents 10 TwoCities,TwoFilms 166 CharlesBarr 11 Afterword 188 MichaelWood Bibliography 195 NotesonContributors 205 Index 207 9780230_537781_01_prexii.tex 28/4/2009 10:57 Pageix List of Illustrations Chapter4 Illustration4.1 ThefreeingoftheComtedeLorges,prisonerinthe Bastille(courtesy,BibliothèqueNationaledeFrance) 68 Illustration4.2 MadameTussaud,TheComtedeLorges(courtesy ofMadameTussaud’s) 70 Chapter8 Illustration8.1 JohnHassall,posterfor‘TheOnlyWay’ 137 Chapter9 Illustration9.1 DrManetteiscarriedforwardfrombehindthe incarceratinggridoftheraisedweaponrytobe hailedasrevolutionarytotem 151 Chapter10 Illustration10.1 1935:DonaldWoodsasDarnay,RonaldColman asCarton 172 Illustration10.2 1958:PaulGuersasDarnay,DirkBogarde asCarton 172 Illustration10.3 1935:HenryB.WalthallasManette,H.B.Warner asGabelle 178 Illustration10.4 1935:WHY[shouldweendureit]?–thefourthin theseriesoftitles,largereachtime 181 ix
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