Hippolyte Taine 5 Volume Set

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A handsomely bound set of Taine's History of English Literature. - Sold as a set of 4. • Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (French). • Edinburgh: Edmonton & Douglas, 1873. • Bound in three-quarter red • Marbled boards and endpapers. Very little wear. Hippolyte Adolphe Taine 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. Wikipedia Born: April 21, 1828, Vouziers, France Died: March 5, 1893, Paris, France Full name: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine Influenced by: Jean de La Fontaine, Edmund Burke, Livy, Johann Gottfried Herder, Germaine de Staël