Beyond the Tragic Vision - Morse Peckham

Title: Beyond the Tragic Vision: The Quest for Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Morse Peckham
Publisher: George Braziller
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: Second printing, 1962
Condition: Second-hand. Good. The dust jacket shows substantial age-related toning, spotting, rubbing and surface wear, with edge wear, creasing, small tears and losses around the spine ends and corners. The binding is intact and the visible pages are clean with light age-related toning. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Morse Peckham examines the search for identity across nineteenth-century philosophy, literature, painting and music, tracing the cultural movement from Romanticism through to Nietzsche and the collapse of older systems of meaning.

Drawing together figures including Goethe, Kant, Byron, Wordsworth, Schopenhauer, Beethoven, Hegel, Wagner, Baudelaire, Darwin, Wilde and Nietzsche, Peckham presents the century as a sustained struggle to reconcile human experience with changing ideas of nature, religion, art and the self.