New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts alongside general themes . The word “revaluation” from the title connotes both the deployment of specifically au courant approaches - viewing, for example, Johnson in relation to climate change, or Johnson and the notion of “osmology” - as well as more general reflections upon Johnson’s importance to our present cultural and temporal moment.
New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts alongside general themes . The word “revaluation” from the title connotes both the deployment of specifically au courant approaches - viewing, for example, Johnson in relation to climate change, or Johnson and the notion of “osmology” - as well as more general reflections upon Johnson’s importance to our present cultural and temporal moment.