The French critic and historian Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828-1893) was one of the most prominent intellectual figures of his period in France. His emphasis on scientific methods in criticism formed the basis of contemporary critical techniques....

Taine, Hippolyte-Adolphe(1828–1893) Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine was a philosopher, psychologist, historian, and critic. Taine and Ernest Renan were the leading French positivistic thinkers of the second half of the nineteenth century. As a result of...

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (April 21, 1828 - March 5, 1893) was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism, and one of the first practitioners of historicist...

Nias, Hilary. The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine. Oxford: Legenda. European Humanities Research Centre, U of Oxford. Modern Humanities Research Assn. 1999. Pp. 259. ISBN 1-900755-18-1 This work is not, the author explains in her introduction, a study of psychology,...

The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine. By HILARY NIAS. Oxford: Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre, MHRA. 1999. 259 pp. Given the relative dearth of serious work on the writers who formed the philosophical backbone to nineteenth-century literary France, a study...