What about the issue of a stereotyped physical appearance eg. Dickens' character has a hooked nose, which is a stereotype with some basis in fact. Is it possible to describe a character as having an appearance that fits part of the stereotype without reinforcing it? Maybe by saying, "The only thing stereotypically X about Y was his red hair ?" But is there another way of saying it? I don't know if "stereotypically" was used often in the 19th century the way we use it today.