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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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This is, to my knowledge, the first serious book-length study of the intellectual relationships among Johnson, the greatest literary figure of his time in England, and the three greatest figures of the Continental 'Enlightenment,' Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot. The book should be a healthy corrective to the narrow outlook of Johnsonian studies on the one hand, and of Continental studies on the other. This is, what one too rarely encounters, 'comparative literature' at its best.
(Donald Greene)Johnsonians and scholars of the French Enlightenment have generally been very disjunct groups. Mark Temmer is therefore unusual in discovering a remarkable amount of common ground in what amounts to a succinct and readable introduction to eighteenth-century letters.
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