Atavistic tendencies : the culture of science in American modernity /
Seitler, Dana.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-283) and index.
Freud's menagerie: our atavistic sense of self -- Late modern morphologies: scientific empiricism and photographic representation -- "Wolf-wolf!"; narrating the science of desire -- Atavistic time: Tarzan, Dr. Fu Manchu, and the serial dime novel -- Unnatural selection: mothers, eugenic feminism, and regeneration narratives -- An atavistic embrace: ape, gorilla, wolf, man.
Science and literature
Science and literature
American literature
American literature
Atavism
Atavism
Eugenics in literature.
Human reproduction in literature.
Biology
Biology