Lecture Notes

• Wrote a play The Frozen Deep
• Lucie from A Tale of Two Cities was inspiried by Met Ellen 
• Sydney Carlton : talented, sacrifices himself for love so the woman who he loves can live happily with her husband.
• Dickens said he likes Carlton and would have called him Richard/Dick as parallelism from a character in The Frozen Deep
• 1858
• Dickens separated from his wife.
• April 30, 1859  
• Chapters 1-3 published. A Tale of Two Cities was published in installments. 
• London was his inspiration and when he was away found it more difficult
• City of extremes in wealth and poverty; developed a bad image later 
• 1844
• Visited Paris on the way to Italy; was the most extraordinary place in the world to Dickens, felt like he couldn't conceive any other place so wonderfully expressive of its character.
• Paris was about half the size of London
• 1844-1868
• Visited Paris at least 15 times
•  Rented apartments; public readings for charity, spanned a period of political change.
• Attracted to the morgues in Paris
• Visualized both cities in  A Tale of Two Cities
• Early topographical investigations of the members of the Dickens fellowship as recorded in their journal, the Mckenzian.
• Two articles-One city and the other city, Paris
• 19th century fears Britain that there could be a revolution there
• Especially for the lower class, what with the urbanization
• Novel is a warning in confronting great Victorian fears.
• A Tale of Two Cities printed in the US and a monthly serial version was printed in the UK
• Dickens was more comfortable with the monthly serial. Let him compress his material and restrict his focus and include illustrations with 2-3 chapters.
• There were adaptations of the novel, a silent film version, and a sound film version.
• "...the events of the revolution and the aftermath constitute one layer of the novel..."