LEADER 03666nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910454626403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-6642-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000723050 035 $a(EBL)433203 035 $a(OCoLC)318220370 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107096 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11114247 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107096 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10014149 035 $a(PQKB)10951605 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC433203 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse38794 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL433203 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10277728 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525802 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000723050 100 $a20080731d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAtavistic tendencies$b[electronic resource] $ethe culture of science in American modernity /$fDana Seitler 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (326 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-5124-8 311 $a0-8166-5123-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-283) and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aThe 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 s 606 $aLiterature and science$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and science$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAtavism$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAtavism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBiology$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBiology$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEugenics in literature 606 $aHuman reproduction in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAtavism$xHistory 615 0$aAtavism$xHistory 615 0$aBiology$xHistory 615 0$aBiology$xHistory 615 0$aEugenics in literature. 615 0$aHuman reproduction in literature. 676 $a810.9/36 700 $aSeitler$b Dana$0982468 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454626403321 996 $aAtavistic tendencies$92242320 997 $aUNINA