Abstract
This article explores the ways Charles Dickens’s roles as novelist and journal editor overlapped and influenced one another in the serial publica tion of A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and complicates recent historicist readings, which situate the novel in relation to the Indian Mutiny (1857-59), by calling attention to a double imperial logic used to construct British subjectivity not only against forms of Eastern Otherness but, moreover, against forms of Southern Otherness associated with the European South, especially Italy. Analyzing Dickens’s historical represen tation of the French Revolution in relation to its contemporary interna tional political context, this essay examines how the novel’s serial publi cation draws upon political discourse from contemporary articles on the Second Italian War of Independence (1859-61) appearing concurrently in Dickens’s journal, All the Year Round. Orientalism circulates simultane ously in the novel as a distant and exotic as well as a provincial and paro chial representation of racial and cultural Otherness.
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