A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912 - Couverture rigide

Livre 3 sur 38: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism

Boeckmann, Cathy

 
9780817310219: A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912

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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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9780817352974: A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912

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ISBN 10 :  081735297X ISBN 13 :  9780817352974
Editeur : University Alabama Press, 2006
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