Premium Content The Importance of Whiteness and Race in Hawthorne's The Birth-Mark
By Anonymous - January 01, 1995
Critical readings of Hawthorne's "The Birth-Mark" tend to focus mainly on Aylmer's attempt to overpower the hand of God, and the boundaries between science and nature. In the vast array of scholarship on the story, however, little has been said of its racial undercurrent. Written in a time in American history when racial biology and eugenics…
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