The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine.(Review)(Brief Article)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: July 1, 2001| Author: Lee, David C.J. | Copyright information

The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine. By HILARY NIAS. Oxford: Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre, MHRA. 1999. 259 pp.

Given the relative dearth of serious work on the writers who formed the philosophical backbone to nineteenth-century literary France, a study of any one of them is welcome, a study of this quality of scholarship, insight and precision a real feast. Backbone? Perhaps not. What Hilary Nias has shown us with admirable surefootedness i...

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