《双城记》解读

出版时间：2008-4  出版社：中国人民大学出版社  作者：乔治·纽林  页数：252  字数：249000  
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内容概要

A Tale of Two Cities is one of the most successful, if not the most successful, historical novels ever written. One of Charles Dickens's shortest works, it does not waste a word in telling a humanly touching, suspenseful tale against the background of one of the most bizarre and bloody events in history: the French Revolution of 1789 and its aftermath, culminating in the Terror of 1793-94.     ...

书籍目录

Introduction1. A Literary Analysis of A Tale of Two Cities2. 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 Carlyle4. Thomas Carlyle's 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 How9. 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 Guillotine11. Prison Isolation and Its Consequences        FROM:        Charles Dickens, American Notes (1842)12. Human Dissection and the "Resurrection Man"GlossaryBibliographyIndex