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Notes on England
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The French Revolution
"Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 ? 5 March 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 criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him."--Wikipedia.
Life and Letters of H. Taine
Excerpt from Life and Letters of H. Taine: 1853-1870 Hippolyte taine, having successfully defended his Thesis, spent a short holiday in the Ardennes on the occasion of his elder sister's marriage,1 and returned to Paris to resume his laborious career. He supported himself by means of a few private lessons and Spent much of his time in public libraries, collecting material for the Essay on titus'livius, to which he gave up his summer holidays. A letter written to his mother on September 4, 1853, runs thus: My work is getting on more quickly than when you were here, but still with some difficulty. I give up my whole day to it, just running out to my meals and now and then to look up Suckau 2 o...
The Artificial Self
"This book reassesses Taine as the very model of the European intellectual in the second half of the 19th century. The author draws on unpublished manuscripts and letters to reveal a self-disguised, tentative and ironic mentality very like the one Taine described in his psychological writings. These qualities are reflected not only in his own ludic response to his times, but in that of many fellow Second Empire intellectuals. Darwinian evolution, new scientific discoveries, ""la Critique"" and Impressionism all made a profound impact on Taine's thinking and on his contribution to the moral revival and Nationalism of the Third Republic."
The Modern Régime
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The Ancient Regime
"The Ancient Regime" from Hippolyte Taine. French critic and historian (1828-1893).
