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- Altick, Richard D. Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature. New York: Norton, 1973. Extremely useful for background on Dickens's times.
- Baldridge, Cates. "Alternatives to Bourgeois Individualism in A Tale of Two Cities." In Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. Vol. 30, Autumn 1990, pp. 633-54. A Marxist reading which sees the book as sympathetic to the collectivist ideology of the Revolution.
- Beckwith, Charles E., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of "A Tale of Two Cities". Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972. Includes a number of useful critical studies of A Tale of Two Cities.
- Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution: A History, 2 volumes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1838. This work by the famous Victorian author and critic is traditionally credited with providing the inspiration for Dickens's scenes of Revolutionary life in France during the period covered in A Tale of Two Cities.
- Davis, Earl. "Recalled to Life." In The Flint and the Flame: The Artistry of Charles Dickens. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1963. A useful discussion of the resurrection theme.
- Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. New York: Amsco School Publications, 1971.
- Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. New York: Signet Classic/Penguin Books USA, 1980.
- Dickens Studies Annual, Vol. 12. Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. A collection of essays ranging across an array of topics about the novel.
- Drinkwater, John. "The Grand Manner: Thoughts upon A Tale of Two Cities." In Essays of the Year. London: Argonaut, 1929-1930, pp. 3-14. In this essay, Drinkwater examines the manner in which A Tale of Two Cities reveals Dickens's creative talent.
- Fielding, K. J. "Separation—and A Tale of Two Cities." In Charles Dickens: A Critical Introduction. London: Longmans, Green, 1958, pp. 154-68. A biographical essay that examines the similarities between Dickens's own failing marriage and the separation and loneliness of Dr. Manette.
- Frank, Lawrence. Charles Dickens and the Romantic Self. University of Nebraska Press, 1974. Sees Darnay, not Carton, as the novel's focus and relates the character to Dickens's life.
- Frank, Lawrence. "Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities: The Poetics of Impasse." In American Imago, Volume 36 (1979), pp. 215-44; reprinted under the title, "The Poetics of Impasse," in Charles Dickens and the Romantic Self by Lawrence Frank. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984, pp. 124-50. Frank looks at the characters of Sidney Carton and Charles Darnay in A Tale of Two Cities psychoanalytically, seeing Carton as Darnay's doppelganger attempting to bring the Frenchman to awareness of his guilty feelings toward Dr. Manette.
- Friedman, Barton R. "Antihistory: Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities." In Fabricating History: English Writers on the French Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988, pp. 145-71. Friedman provides a useful guide to further criticism of Dickens's novel and draws parallels between the work and the genre of the Gothic Romance.
- Glancy, Ruth F. "A Tale of Two Cities": Dickens's Revolutionary Novel. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.
- Goldberg, Michael. Carlyle and Dickens. University of Georgia Press, 1973. Analyzes the influence of Carlyle and his The French Revolution on Dickens.
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- Houston, Gail Turley. Consuming Fictions: Gender, Class and Hunger in Dickens's Novels. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
- Hutter, Albert D. "Nation and Generation in A Tale of Two Cities." PMLA, Vol. 93, May 1978, pp. 448-62. A psychological reading in which the clash of aristocrats of the ancien regime and the revolutionaries is also a clash of parents and children.
- Johnson, Edgar. Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, 2 vols. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. This Book-of-the-Month Club selection has become a standard biography. It includes good critical chapters on all the novels, including A Tale of Two Cities.
- Jordan, John O., ed. The Cambridge Companion to "A Tale of Two Cities." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Manheim, Leonard. "A Tale of Two Characters: A Study in Multiple Projection." In Dickens Studies Annual, Vol. I, edited by Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 225-27. Relates Darnay and Carton biographically to Dickens, viewing them as projections of Dickens's idealized self.
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- Wilson, Edmund. "Dickens: The Two Scrooges." In The Wound and the Bow. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. An important discussion of Dickens's life as it relates to his novels.
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