MacLennan's Athanase Tallard: Robert Owen in Saint Marc

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MacLennan's Athanase Tallard: Robert Owen in Saint Marc
Abstract
The author notes that it has been suggested that Athanase Tallard, a character in Montreal Hugh MacLennan's 1945 novel Two Solitudes, is based specifically on Robert Owen, a well-known entrepreneur and industrialist of nineteenth-century England. Whether this is factual or not, the author argues that the historical analogue sheds valuable light on Athanase Tallard's character and on his role in MacLennan's novel, for Owen was a man who neither achieved great practical success nor did he create an original system of thought. His contribution lay in his humanity and in his belief that every person had a right to full humanity. Certainly, the author concludes, there could be no more apt description of what Athanase Tallard represents in Two Solitudes.
Publication
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne
Volume
Vol. 8
Issue
no. 2
Pages
277-281
Date
Summer 1983
Language
en
URL
Citation
Mulvihill, James D. “MacLennan’s Athanase Tallard: Robert Owen in Saint Marc.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne Vol. 8, no. 2 (Summer 1983): 277–281. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/8002/9059.
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