Peckham, Morse,

Beyond the tragic vision : the quest for identity in the nineteenth century / Quest for identity in the nineteenth century by Morse Peckham. - 380 pages ; 23 cm

Originally published: New York : Braziller, 1962. Includes index.

Introduction: the problems of the historian -- Part One. The end of ancient thinking -- I. Orientation and culture -- II. Paradise and eternity -- III. Enlightenment -- Part Two. The alienated vision -- IV. The discovery of the self : Goethe-Kant -- V. Explorers: 1. : Byron-Stendhal -- VI. Explorers: 2. : Wordsworth-Goethe -- VII. Explorers: 3. : Friedrich-Constable -- VIII. Explorers: 4. : Schopenhauer-Beethoven -- Part Three. The heroic redeemer -- IX. The world without value : Beethoven-Kant-Hegel-Schopenhauer -- X. Transcendental authority : Carlyle-Balzac-Scott -- XI. The transcendental ear : Tennyson-Balzac-Berlioz-Schumann-Hoffmann -- XII. The transcendental eye : Baudelaire-Delacroix-Turner -- Part Four. Illusion and reality -- XIII. Transcendentalism in difficulty : Disraeli-Carlyle-Balzac -- XIV. The hero frustrated : Wagner's dreams ; Wagner's music -- XV. Self and object : Ruskin-Browning-Flaubert-Baudelaire-Hanslick-Bruckner -- XVI. The crisis of style : Schumann-Flaubert-Ruskin-Browning-Baudelaire-Tennyson-Zola-Darwin-Courbet-Manet -- Part Five. Style and value -- XVII. Identity and personality : Wagner-Swinburne-Wilde-Moreau -- XVIII. Identity and style : Brahms-Mallarme -- XIX. Style and freedom : Seurat-Cezanne-Gauguin-Debussy -- XX. Beyond tragedy : Nietzsche.

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Arts, European.
Arts, Modern--19th century.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Philosophy--History--19th century.

NX542.A1

700.94