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100 1 $aSeitler, Dana.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008051972
245 10 $aAtavistic tendencies :$bthe culture of science in American modernity /$cDana Seitler.
260 $aMinneapolis :$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$c2008.
300 $aviii, 315 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-283) and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tDown on All Fours --$g1.$tFreud's Menagerie: Our Atavistic Sense of Self --$g2.$tLate Modern Morphologies: Scientific Empiricism and Photographic Representation --$g3.$t"Wolf-wolf!"; Narrating the Science of Desire --$g4.$tAtavistic Time: Tarzan, Dr. Fu Manchu, and the Serial Dime Novel --$g5.$tUnnatural Selection: Mothers, Eugenic Feminism, and Regeneration Narratives --$g6.$tAn Atavistic Embrace: Ape, Gorilla, Wolf, Man --$tCoda: Being-Now, Being-Then.
520 1 $a"The 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 served to sustain ideologies of gender, sexuality, and race. She argues that atavism was not only a discourse of violence - mapping racial and sexual divisions onto the boundary between human and animal - but was also an illustration of how modern science understood human being as a temporal category. On one hand, atavism positioned some humans as more advanced than others on an evolutionary scale. On the other, it undermined such progressivism by suggesting that because all humans had evolved from animals they were therefore not purely human. Atavism thus reveals how scientific theories of a recurrent past were a significant feature of modernity." "At the beginning of the twentieth century, atavistic theory had widespread social and economic effects on the taxonomies of medicine, the logic of the welfare state, conceptions of the modern family, and images of the abnormal. Investigating the cultural logic of science in conjunction with naturalist, feminist, and popular narratives, Seitler exposes the influence of atavism: a fundamental shift in ways of knowing - and telling stories about - the modern human."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101049
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101047
650 0 $aAtavism$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAtavism$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aEugenics in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005350
650 0 $aHuman reproduction in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004714
650 0 $aBiology$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aBiology$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129911
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
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