Charles Darnay as a secret double of Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Darnay as a secret double of Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities To this day, most Boulogne people treasure the memory of Charles Dickens, gratefully remembering how much he grew to like his ―French watering-place‖, where he and his family spent many a leisurely holiday in the mid-1850s, often entertaining visitors from England. Because the venue is more precisely Condette, the village southwest of Boulogne with a distinct whiff of the illicit about it – whether it did offer an ideal ―love nest‖ to the Dickens-Ternan couple does not seem to matter – this leg of the conference will interrogate the explanatory power of the adjective ―Dickensian‖ when it is related to such concepts as movement, travel, and a (possibly transgressive) yearning to cross thresholds – a major characteristic of Dickens's characters as much as of the writer himself, from a very early stage of his career. With this in mind, papers are invited that address the conference theme, including, but not exclusively, the following topics: Cross-Channel adventures: " Le citoyen Dickens " in Northern France& Belgium; holidaymaking; guilty secrets, transgressiveness and secrecy; spiritual quest; the restless self: wandering, meandering, separateness; paralysis and entrapment; echoing footsteps; negotiating the Other: the defamiliarized self; Dickens as a leading exponent of Victorian culture across the Channel Critics have noticed that Charles Darnay and Charles Dickens share more than their Christian name or their initials. Like Charles Dickens Charles Darnay keeps going and coming between England and France on ―secret business of which he could give no honest account. A Tale of Two CitiesL'article analyse la projection de Charles Dickens dans le Roman A Tale of Two cities dans son versant français inconscient ou occulte