Morse Peckham (1914–1993)

Author of Man's Rage for Chaos: Biology, Behavior, and the Arts

About the Author

Morse Peckham was a graduate of the University of Rochester and Princeton University. He went on to teach English at the University of Pennsylvania and later at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Man's Rage for Chaos and Explanation and show more Power. show less

Includes the names: Peckham Morse, MORSE PECKHAM PECKHAM

Works by Morse Peckham

Beyond the tragic vision; the quest for identity in the nineteenth century (1962) 48 copies

Romanticism and Ideology (1995) 33 copies

Art and Pornography: An Experiment in Explanation (1971) 22 copies

Explanation and Power: The Control of Human Behavior (1979) 14 copies

Victorian revolutionaries : speculations on some heroes of a culture crisis (1970) 14 copies

The Triumph of Romanticism (Collected Essays) (1970) 10 copies

The Romantic Virtuoso (1995) 6 copies

Romanticism and Behavior: Collected Essays II (1976) 4 copies

Word, meaning, poem 3 copies

The Cultures of Mankind: Romanticism 1 copy

The uses of the unfashionable : the pre-Raphaelites in nineteenth-century culture (1993) 1 copy

Penn State Papers in Art Education No. 2: Literacy Interpretation as Conventionalized Verbal Behavior 1 copy

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The Origin of Species (1859) — Editor, some editions — 16,566 copies, 133 reviews

Poems and Ballads and Atalanta in Calydon (2000) — Editor, some editions — 172 copies, 1 review

The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text (Variorum Reprint) (2006) — Editor — 19 copies

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