Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Taine | |
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| Born | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine 21 April 1828 Vouziers, France |
| Died | 5 March 1893 (aged 64) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | Conservatism Naturalism Positivism |
| Main interests | Philosophy of art History of France Political philosophy |
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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine[a] (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on 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.[2] Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.
Taine had a profound effect on French literature; Maurice Baring wrote in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica that "the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's."[3] Out of the trauma of 1871, Taine has been said by one scholar to have "forged the architectural structure of modern French right-wing historiography."[4]
- ^ "Taine". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d.
- ^ Kelly, R. Gordon (1974). "Literature and the Historian". American Quarterly. 26 (2): 141–159. doi:10.2307/2712232. JSTOR 2712232.
- ^ Baring, Maurice (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 360–363.
- ^ Susanna Barrows. Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in Late Nineteenth-century France. New Haven: Yale U, 1981, p.83
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