Beyond the Tragic Vision: The Quest for Identity in the Nineteenth Century

Morse Peckham

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Language: English

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1981

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This book is an attempt to find the central nerve of nineteenth-century culture, to discover the problem which unifies the most important cultural documents in the century's philosophy, literature, painting and music. The author sketches how, with the collapse of the Enlightenment at the end of the eighteenth century, it became necessary for the individual to derive order, meaning and value from his own identity rather from the objective world. Professor Peckham sees four stages in the nineteenth century's effort to solve the problem of finding a ground for human identity: the period of discovery and analogy from man to nature (sometimes called Romanticism), the period of Transcendentalism.

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Title
Beyond the Tragic Vision: The Quest for Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Author
Morse Peckham
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication year
1981
Condition
Fair
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0521281539
ISBN 13
9780521281539

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