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001 99006765
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050 00 $aPS374.R34$bB64 2000
082 00 $a813/.409353$221
100 1 $aBoeckmann, Cathy,$d1968-
245 12 $aA question of character :$bscientific racism and the genres of American fiction, 1892-1912 /$cCathy Boeckmann.
260 $aTuscaloosa :$bUniversity of Alabama Press,$cc2000.
300 $aviii, 238 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aStudies in American literary realism and naturalism
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-233) and index.
505 0 $aAcknowledgments -- 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.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aRacism in literature.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature.
650 0 $aRacially mixed people in literature.
650 0 $aRace discrimination in literature.
650 0 $aPassing (Identity) in literature.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aEugenics in literature.
650 0 $aLiterary form$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterary form$xHistory$y20th century.
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d5w5-aa