Critical Essays on Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (Critical essays on British literature) - Hardcover

Cotsell, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078380072X ISBN 13: 9780783800721

Publisher: Twayne Publishers Inc.,U.S., 1998

Synopsis

The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day.

Each volume includes:

-- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out the schools of thought

-- The most influential reviews and the best reprinted scholarly essays

-- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries

-- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series

-- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments

-- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews

-- A name and subject index

About this title

Synopsis

A selection of essays on Dickens' novel, concentrating on the novel's fundamental structural and thematic division into contrasting cities, scenes, characters, and ideologies. An introduction looks at relations between history and the present, and the history of the book's genesis in Dickens' own life and in Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution,

About this edition

• Publisher: Twayne Publishers Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 078380072X
• ISBN 13: 9780783800721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Cotsell Michael