- 1857: wrote "The Frozen Deep"
- inspired A Tale of Two Cities.
- self sacrifice
- love triangle
- 1857: fell in love with actress name Ellen and left wife
- Ellen inspired Lucie's character
- Other characters:
- Charles Darney and Sydney Carton (originally named Dick Carton)
- doubleness of character
- Charle's Dickens' initials
- 1858: public readings for prophit
- separated from wife
- left his editors
- 1859: new editor
- first three chapters of A Tale of Two Cities are pubished
- experiences in London gave him a "profound knowlege of the city"
- a dark and fascating place
- "everything is there and disconnected
- Paris: 1844
- "most extraordinary place in the world"
- strange, striking things
- half size of London
- visited 15 times
- public charity readings
- last visit was 2 years before his death
- vibrant modernizing city
- had a darker side:
- dark, wicked place, but wonderfully attractiv
- liked visiting the Morgue
- public attraction
- attraction of repulsion
- Worlds of London and Paris were the same in his story
- people were haunted by memory of French Rev.
- very brave for confronting that fear in his story
- published in weekly and monthly volumes
- restricted his focus
- "Best story I've ever written"
- 1860: first stage version of book
- 1899: The Only Way
- another stage play
- 1908: Silent film
- 1935: sound film
- Thomas Carslisle
- friends with Dickens
- influence
- "History of the French Revolution"
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
A Tale of Two Cities Lecture Notes
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