ASSIGNMENT FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 1
Reading: (1) Hippolyte Taine, excerpt from History of English
Literature (CT, 609–620)
(2) Emile Zola, excerpts from The Experimental Novel (CT,
645–655)
Question: Explain one respect in which either criticism, according to Taine, or novel-writing, according to Zola, may be “scientific.”
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