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 (such as the Dictionary, the Lives of the Poets) alongside general themes (such as Johnson and intertextuality, Johnson and autobiography). 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.
- ISBN10 1611496799
- ISBN13 9781611496796
- Publish Date 17 October 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint University of Delaware Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 282
- Language English