New Essays on Samuel Johnson

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 approachesviewing, for example, Johnson in relation to climate change, or Johnson and the notion of osmologyas well as more general reflections upon Johnsons importance to our present cultural and temporal moment.