A question of character : scientific racism and the genres of American fiction, 1892-1912

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Title:

A question of character : scientific racism and the genres of American fiction, 1892-1912

Author:

Boeckmann, Cathy, 1968-

Personal Author:

Boeckmann, Cathy, 1968-

Publication Information:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2000]

Physical Description:

viii, 238 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.

Language:

English

Contents:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Scientific racism, character, and American fiction -- Thomas Dixon and the rhetorical mulatto -- Pudd'nhead Wilson's phrenological photograph -- Howells and Chesnutt: the racial uses of genre -- Character and black art in The autobiography of an ex-Coloured man -- Epilogue: race and representation -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.

Reading Level:

1430 Lexile.

Subject Term:

American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Racism in literature.

American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Literature and science -- United States -- History.

Characters and characteristics in literature.

Race discrimination in literature.

Passing (Identity) in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Eugenics in literature.