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

by Catherine Boeckmann

Boeckmann links character, literary genre, and science, revealing how major literary works both contributed to and disrupted the construction of race in turn-of-the-century America. In A Question of Character , Cathy Boeckmann establishes a strong link between racial questions and the development of literary traditions at the end of the 19th century in America. This period saw the rise of "scientific racism," which claimed that the races were distinguished...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817310215
• ISBN13: 9780817310219
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"