taine preface stoddard (2 resultados)

Hardcovers. Condición: Good. -------------Blue cloth covers with paper spine labels, books are near 9" tall. 433 pages, 447 pages, 462 pages, 476 pages, illustrated with very few portraits of famous writers.- - - -GOOD CONDITION, tight solid bindings, clean texts, but for minor sporadic pencil marks in some chapters in some of the books, spine labels are browned and chipped, with a pull-tear in spine top of volume 1- - - no dust jackets.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 4 volume complete set. Green cloth hardcover boards with paper labels on the spines and gilt page edges. Illustrated with frontis portraits of noted authors such as Shakespeare and Burns. Boards with moderate wear and staining; pages dusty with rough page edges soiled.Bindings tight and complete. Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828 - 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. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.