Temmer reevaluates dogmatic views and critical commonplaces that have encrusted Anglo-French relationships by comparing representative works of the three Continental authors to corresponding works and realities embodied and created by Samuel Johnson.
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MARK TEMMER is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His previous books include Time in Rousseau and Kant: An Essay on Pre-Romanticism; Rousseau's Art and Influence: The Pastoral, Goethe, Gottfried Keller, and Other Essays; and a book of French sonnets, Le Surfer de Hawaii.
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