Atavistic tendencies : the culture of science in American modernity / Dana Seitler.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008], ©2008.

viii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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.