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Professor Michael Slater - Dickens' "picturesque story" - The Writing of A Tale Of Two Cities
12 November 2011
4pm
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Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, Michael Slater will explore the origins of this most intensely dramatic of all Dickens's novels. Focusing on the author's own personal turmoil at the time of writing, and delving into his deep-rooted obsession with prisons and prisoners, his long-standing, passionate admiration for Carlyle's The French Revolution, the 'attraction of repulsion' he felt for anarchic mobs, and a love of France that once moved him to sign a letter 'Charles Dickens, citoyen français'.