A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912 (2000)
Boeckmann, Cathy (Author)
The University of Alabama Press
Physical Details: viii + 238 pp., bibl., index
Language: English
Review Kinney, James (2002) Review of "A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 135).
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