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HIPPOLYTE TAINE (1828 - 1893)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

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• Anthologies:
  • Carnets de voyage.  1897.
  • Derniers Essais.  1895.
  • Essais de critique et d'histoire.  Paris: , 1865.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Les Origines de la France contemporaine.  1875-93
    • The Origins of Contemporary France: the Ancient Regime, The Revolution, The Modern Regime: Selected Chapters.  Ed. Edward T. Gargan.  1974.
  • De l'Intelligence.  1870.
  • Philosophie de l'art.  1865.
  • Histoire de la littérature Anglaise.  Paris: , 1863-1864.
    • History of English Literature.  Trans. H. van Laun.  2 Vols.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1872.
      • "Introduction." 
        • "From History of English Literature."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  Fort Worth: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971.  609-620.
  • Balzac: a Critical Study.  1858.  Trans. Lorenzo O'Rourke.  1906.
  • Les Philosophes classiques du dix-neuvième siècle en France.  1857.

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• Online Sources (Project Gutenberg)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Chevrillon, André.  Taine: Formation de sa pensée.  1932.

  • Eustis, Alvin.  Hippolyte Taine and the Classical Genius.  1951.

  • Evans, Colin.  "Taine and his Fate."  Nineteenth-Century French Studies 6 (1977-78): .

  • Harland, Richard.  "The Beginnings of Sociological Criticism: Taine, Marx."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  90-95.

  • Jeune, Simon.  "Taine, le romantisme et la nature."  Romantisme 30 (1980).

  • Kahn, Sholom J.  Science and Aesthetic Judgment: a Study in Taine's Critical Method.  1953.

  • Philosophies: Special Issue, Romantisme 32 (1981).

  • Schaepdryver, K. de.  Hippolyte Taine: Essai sur l'unité de sa pensée.  1938.

  • Weinstein, Leo.  Hippolyte Taine.  1972.

  • Wellek, René.  The Later Nineteenth Century.  Vol. 4 of A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950.  1965.

  • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "The Historical Method."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  522-551.

On-Line:

• L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora: Taine

• VanderWolk, William: Hippolyte Taine (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

  • Hippolyte Taine: Race, Milieu, and Moment

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