During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe” initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated publishing magnate created a global audience for a research specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism. Paper, Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario a vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An introduction discusses Hornstein’s life and achievements, revealing the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the early days of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on the business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined, delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Foreword: Gabriel Hornstein (1935–2017)
Cedric D. Reverand II
Introduction
Kevin L. Cope
Section I: On Publishing
Chapter 1: Raising the Price of Literature: The Benefactions of William Strahan and Bennet Cerf
J. T. Scanlan
Chapter 2: Eighteenth-Century Publishers and the Creation of a Fiction Canon
Leah Orr
Chapter 3: Elizabeth Sadleir, Master Printer in Dublin, 1715–1727
James E. May
Section 2: Neglected Authors
Chapter 4: Ihara Saikaku and the Cash Nexus in Edo-Era Osaka
Susan Spencer
Chapter 5: Frances Brooke, Rosina, Sense and Sensibility
Linda Troost
Chapter 6: “Justus Lipsius, Alexander Pope, and An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Manuel Schonhorn
Section 3: Reevaluating Literary Modes
Chapter 7: “When Worlds Collide”: Anti-Methodist Literature and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism in the Critical and Monthly Review
Brett C. McInelly
Chapter 8: Swift, Dryden, Virgil, and Theories of Epic in Swift’s A Description of a City Shower
David Venturo
Chapter 9: Tension, Contraries, and Blake’s Augustan Values
Philip Smallwood
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors