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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Boeckmann, Cathy, 1968-
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000.
Series:Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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Table of 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.