Introduction
1.A Literary Analysis of A Tale of Two Cities
2.Before the Deluge
FROM:
Arthur Young, Travels in France during the Years
1787, 1788, 1789 (1790)
3.The Events of the French Revolution
Chronology
Principal Figures
ADAPTED FROM:
"Philo" Summarizes The French Revolution (1857)
by Thomas Carlyle
4.Thomas Carlyles The French Revolution
FROM:
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (1837)
5.Dickens and Carlyle: Common Threads
FROM:
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (1837)
6.The Mob in Two Cities and the Terror
FROM:
Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1841)
Helen Maria Williams, Letters on the French
Revolution, Written in France, in the Summer of
1790, to a Friend in England (1792)
Anthony Trollope, La Vendee (1850)
7.Voices from the Prisons of Paris in the Terror
FROM:
Olivier Blanc, Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of
the French Revolution, 1793-1794
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (1837)
Olivier Blanc, Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of
the French Revolution, 1793-1794
Marie-Jeanne Roland, Memoirs (1794)
8.Revolution: When, What, and How
9.Due Process of Law: The Rights of Man
FROM:
Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1790)
Helen Maria Williams, Letters on the French
Revolution, Written in France, in the Summer of
1790, to a Friend in England (1792)
Arthur Young, Travels in France during the Years
1787, 1788, 1789 (1790)
10.Capital Punishment: Usually Cruel Before
the Guillotine
11.Prison Isolation and Its Consequences
FROM:
Charles Dickens, American Notes (1842)
12.Human Dissection and the "Resurrection Man"
Glossary
Bibliography
Index