Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

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A Tale of Two Cities has always been one of Dickens’s most popular texts. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this new collection of essays examines the origins of Dickens vision of the French Revolution, the literary power of the text itself, and its enduring place in British culture through stage and screen adaptations.

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COLIN,JONES, FBA, is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He has published widely on French history, particularly on the French Revolution and the history of medicine. Recent books include The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002) and Paris: Biography of a City (2004). , JOSEPHINE MCDONAGH is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Kings College London, UK. She is author of De Quinceys Disciplines (1994), George Eliot (1997) and Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900 (2003). , JON,MEE is Professor of Romanticism Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Apart from publishing widely on the literature, culture, and politics of the Romantic period, he has co-edited Barnaby Rudge for Oxford Worlds Classics and is currently writing an introduction to Dickens.