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

KEITH BAKER is J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in Humanities at Stanford University, USACHARLES BARR is Emeritus Professor of Film and Television at the University of East Anglia, UKJOHN BOWEN is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York, UKJUDITH BUCHANAN is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of York, UKKAMILLA ELLIOTT is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University, UKSALLY LEDGER is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UKJOSS MARSH is Professor of Victorian Studies at Indiana University, USAALEX NEWHOUSE is researching a Ph.D. at the University of York, UKMARK PHILP is a University Lecturer in Politics and Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford, UKGARETH STEDMAN JONES is Professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge, UKMICHAEL WOOD is Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: A Tale of Two Cities in Context; C.Jones, J.McDonagh & J.Mee The New Philosophy: The Substance and the Shadow in A Tale of Two Cities ; M.Philp The Redemptive Powers of Violence? Carlyle, Marx and Dickens; G.Stedman Jones A Genealogy of Dr Manette; K.Baker From the Old Bailey to Revolutionary France: The Trials of Charles Darnay; S.Ledger Face Value in A Tale of Two Cities ; K.Elliot Counting on: A Tale of Two Cities ; J.Bowen Mimi and the Matinée Idol: Martin-Harvey, Sydney Carton, and the Staging of A Tale of Two Cities , 1860-1939; J.Marsh Sanguine Mirages, Cinematic Dreams: Things Seen and Things Imagined in the 1917 Fox Feature Film A Tale of Two Cities ; J.Buchanan with A.Newhouse Two Cities, Two Films; C.Barr Afterword; M.Wood Bibliography Index

'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