· 3rd city of Manchester in tales of two cities
· 1857- dickens and friends wrote “frozen deep”
o Inspired by journey to northwest passage
· Fell in love with “Lucie”—actress that was added in tales of two cities
· Parallelism—‘D’ for Dick (character) and Darla?
· 1858- became into public readings for money, not charity
o Established new relationship with his audience
· May 1888- separation with his wife
· Dickens is acquainted with London
o Suffering is well established, disturbing childhood
o Extensive and peculiar knowledge of city
o Ricketiness and darkness, fascination, “vile” place, Magic Land some
o Found it hard to write in London—Sets me up to write
o Correspondence for prosperity
o “London is like a newspaper, disconnected”
o London was a city of extremes, elaborate, etc.
· 1844- went to Paris
o Made an extraordinary place/memory, separate from reality, strange and impressed, expressive place
o Walked streets, all day, 2 days, every person were like a different leaf in the book. “never was such a place”
o City of 900,000 people, half the size of London, expanded in late 1860’s.
o Reconstructs Paris’ nobility in book/novel/story
o Visited Paris at least 15 times
· British embassy, gave enormous public reading
o Political change, things changed like the emperor
· Morgue was physical attraction--- dickens was attracted to repulsion
No comments:
Post a Comment