03633nam 2200757Ia 450 991081523750332120230124182950.00-8166-6642-3(CKB)1000000000723050(EBL)433203(OCoLC)318220370(SSID)ssj0000107096(PQKBManifestationID)11114247(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107096(PQKBWorkID)10014149(PQKB)10951605(MiAaPQ)EBC433203(MdBmJHUP)muse38794(Au-PeEL)EBL433203(CaPaEBR)ebr10277728(CaONFJC)MIL525802(EXLCZ)99100000000072305020080731d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAtavistic tendencies[electronic resource] the culture of science in American modernity /Dana SeitlerMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20081 online resource (326 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5124-8 0-8166-5123-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-283) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Down on All Fours; 1 Freud's Menagerie: Our Atavistic Sense of Self; 2 Late Modern Morphologies: Scientific Empiricism and Photographic Representation; 3 "Wolf-wolf!": Narrating the Science of Desire; 4 Atavistic Time: Tarzan, Dr. Fu Manchu, and the Serial Dime Novel; 5 Unnatural Selection: Mothers, Eugenic Feminism, and Regeneration Narratives; 6 An Atavistic Embrace: Ape, Gorilla, Wolf, Man; Coda: Being-Now, Being-Then; Notes; IndexThe post-Darwinian theory of atavism forecasted obstacles to human progress in the reappearance of throwback physical or cultural traits after several generations of absence. In this original and stimulating work, Dana Seitler explores the ways in which modernity itself is an atavism, shaping a historical and theoretical account of its dramatic rise and impact on Western culture and imagination. Examining late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century science, fiction, and photography, Seitler discovers how modern thought oriented itself around this paradigm of obsolescence and return-one that sLiterature and scienceUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and scienceUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAtavismHistory19th centuryAtavismHistory20th centuryBiologyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryBiologyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryEugenics in literatureHuman reproduction in literatureLiterature and scienceHistoryLiterature and scienceHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.AtavismHistoryAtavismHistoryBiologyHistoryBiologyHistoryEugenics in literature.Human reproduction in literature.810.9/36Seitler Dana1601357MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815237503321Atavistic tendencies4113928UNINA