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Author:

Boeckmann, Cathy, 1968-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

viii, 238 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.
Afro-Americans in literature.
Eugenics in literature.
Literary form.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-233) and index.

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.

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

ISBN:

9780817310219 (alk. paper)
0817310215 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42022208

LCCN:

99006765

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)