Alton Locke (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Kingsley
- First Published: 1850
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1840’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Class consciousness, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Working class, London, Colleges or universities, Victorian era or Victorianism, Tailoring or tailors, Clay
- Locales: London, England, Cambridge, England
Places Discussed
*London. The novel’s London is a place of two nations: the powerful and the dispossessed, signed by the terms “West End” and “East End” respectively. The West End comprises the fashionable parts of London, such as Piccadilly or the Dulwich Art Gallery, in which the Dean Winnstay’s family lives and moves. The East End, the “cockney” side of London is the area of grinding poverty, slums, insanitary conditions and disease. Places are not named here, as they are in Dickens’s novels, apart from a brief excursion to Bermondsey, on the south bank of...
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