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A rich source of primary materials, commentary, and resources on the historical context of A Tale of Two Cities.

Table of Contents

Introduction A Literary Analysis of A Tale of Two Cities Before the Deluge The Events of the French Revolution Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution Dickens and Carlyle: Common Threads The Mob in Two Cities, and the "Terror" Voices from the Prisons of Paris in the Terror Revolution: When, What and How Due Process of Law: The Rights of Man Capital Punishment Prison Isolation and Its Consequences Human Dissection and the "Resurrection Man" Glossary Index

About the Author

GEORGE NEWLIN is the compiler and editor of the three-volume Everyone in Dickens (Greenwood Press, 1995) and of Every Thing in Dickens (Greenwood Press, 1996). He is now preparing a student casebook in the Literature in Context series on Great Expectations. His next major anthological work will be a multivolume series on Anthony Trollope. George Newlin has spent his professional career combining activities in law and finance with volunteer service in the arts and serious avocational musical performance. In 1988 he began developing his concept for a new kind of literary anthology, beginning with the works of Charles Dickens.

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?[T]his Casebook can provide a plan for an entire unit of study in either a history or literature course.?-English Literature in Transition

"�T�his Casebook can provide a plan for an entire unit of study in either a history or literature course."-English Literature in Transition

"[T]his Casebook can provide a plan for an entire unit of study in either a history or literature course."-English Literature in Transition