Hippolyte Taine
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French critic and historian
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Hippolyte Taine's Degrees
- Doctorate Philosophy Université Paris Cité
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.
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