A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912 (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism) - Hardcover

Book 3 of 38: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism

Cathy Boeckmann

 
9780817310219: A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912 (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism)
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ISBN 10: 0817310215 ISBN 13: 9780817310219
Publisher: University of Alabama Press, 2000

Synopsis

This work links character, literary genre and science, revealing how major literary works both contributed to and disrupted the construction of race at the end of 19th-century America. This period saw the rise of ""scientific racism"", the distinction of races by both appearance and character traits.

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About the Author

Catherine Ann Boeckmann,an independent scholar, is Communication Specialist at McKinsey & Company in Atlanta.

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Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0817310215
ISBN 13 
9780817310219
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
248

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