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The tailor transformed: Kingsley's 'Alton Locke' and the notion of change. (Charles Kingsley)

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 19930622
Author:Rauch, Alan

Charles Kingsley attempts to integrate his scientific and spiritual ideals in the protagonist of 'Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet.' Alton Locke, the poet-tailor, is a Chartist until he is enlightened by Eleanor about the need for something more than mere political reform to cure English society. Eleanor is the pragmatist who vindicates Kingsley's faith in the mutual compatibility of science and religion. The different things Kingsley attempts to unite in the novel work against each other and make it weak thus challenging Kingsley's utopian vision.

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