Atavistic tendencies : the culture of science in American modernity

Atavistic tendencies : the culture of science in American modernity /

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 hist...

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Main Author: Seitler, Dana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Atavism > History > 20th century.
Atavism > History > 19th century.
Eugenics in literature.
Human reproduction in literature.
Biology > United States > History > 20th century.
Biology > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and science > History > 20th century.
Literature and science > History > 19th century.
Medicine in literature.
Eugenics.
Medicine in Literature
Eugenics
Heredity
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Science > history
United States
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