Cates Baldridge, "Alternatives to Bourgeois Individualism in A Tale of Two Cities," 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.
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution- A History, 2 volumes, Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1838.
TIus 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.
Dickens Studies Annual, Vol. 12, Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
A collection of essay ranging across an array of topics about the novel.
John Drinkwater, "The Grand Manner. Thoughts upon A Tale of Two Cities," Essays of the Year, London: Argonaut, 1929-1930,.....
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