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| Genre/Form: | Sources |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Newlin, George. Understanding A tale of two cities. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998 (OCoLC)607076665 |
| Named Person: | Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles (1812-1870) Dickens; Charles Dickens |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
George Newlin |
| ISBN: | 0313299390 9780313299391 |
| OCLC Number: | 38174515 |
| Description: | xiv, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | A literary analysis of A tale of two cities -- Before the deluge: Travels in France during the years 1787,1788,1789, (1790) -- The events of the French Revolution: Chronology, Principal figures, Philo summarizes The French revolution (1857) / Thomas Carlyle -- Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution (1837): The French revolution / Thomas Carlyle -- Dickens and Carlyle: Common threads: The French revolution (1837) / Thomas Carlyle -- The mob in two cities and the terror: Barnaby Rudge (1841) / Charles Dickens, Lettrs on the French revolution, written in France, in teh summer of 1790, to a friend in England / Helen Maria Williams, La Vendee (1850) / Anthony Trollope -- Voices from the prisons in Paris in the terror: Las letters: prisons and prisoners of the French revolution, 1793-1794 / Olivier Blanc -- The French revolution, 1837 / Thomas Carlyle, Last letters: prisons and prisoners of the French revolution, 1793-1794 / Olivier Blanc, Memoirs, 1794 / Marie-Jeanne Roland -- Revolution: when, what, and how -- Due process of law: The rights of man: The rights of man, 1790 / Thomas Paine, Letters on the French revolution, written in France, in the summer of 1790, to a friend in England, 1792 / Helen Maria Williams, Travels in France during the years 1787, 1788, 1789 (1790) / Arthur Young -- Capital punishment: usually cruel before the guillotine -- Prison isolation and its consequences: American notes (1842) / Charles Dickens -- Human dissection and the resurrection man. |
| Series Title: | Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series. |
| Responsibility: | George Newlin. |
Abstract:
This collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary on "A Tale of Two Cities" seeks to promote interdisciplinary study of the novel and enrich the student's understanding of the French Revolution and the significant issues it raised.
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