The Companion to 'A Tale of Two Cities' (Dickens Companions) - Softcover

Sanders, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367749718 ISBN 13: 9780367749712

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale of Two Cities and its roots. It also explores the aspects of Dickens’s life, especially his interest in private theatricals, which contributed to the genesis of the novel. For the first time the historical sources for the very individual account of the French Revolution presented in A Tale of Two Cities are examined, and the book investigates the novelist’s debt to French and English eye-witnesses. This Companion identifies the multitude of allusions to what Dickens often regarded as the whims of eighteenth-century justice, religion, philosophy, fashion and society. It provides the modern reader with both fundamental sources of information and a fascinating account of the creation of a complex historical novel.

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Andrew Sanders

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367749718
• ISBN 13: 9780367749712
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192