Leonard Manheim (essay date 1970)
SOURCE: “A Tale of Two Characters: A Study in Multiple Projection,” in Dickens Studies Annual, Volume I, edited by Robert B. Partlow, Jr., Southern Illinois University Press, 1970, pp. 225-37.
[In the following essay, Manheim explores the duality of the main “character” in A Tale of Two Cities, arguing that Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay are essentially a single “Fantasy-Hero” who embodies Dickens's own ideal of himself.]
Dickens scholars have never been able to forgive A Tale of Two...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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