Paper, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship
edited by Kevin L. Cope and Cedric D. Reverand II contributions by David Venturo, Philip Smallwood, James E May, Leah Orr, J. T. Scanlan, Susan Spencer, Linda V. Troost, Manuel Schonhorn and Brett C. McInelly
Bucknell University Press, 2021 Cloth: 978-1-68448-252-8 | eISBN: 978-1-68448-253-5 | Paper: 978-1-68448-251-1 Library of Congress Classification PR442.P37 2020 Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9005
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK 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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY KEVIN L. COPE is Adams Professor of English Literature and a member of the comparative literature faculty at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
CEDRIC D. REVERAND II is George Duke Humphrey Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
REVIEWS
"As its title indicates, Pen, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship, is a festschrift honoring the late head and owner of AMS Press, a stalwart house that devoted much of its energies to promoting scholarship of the long eighteenth century. This collection of innovative and largely stylistically lucid essays written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field will be of keen interest to most eighteenth-century scholars and of particular importance to those specializing in print studies and publishing, neglected authors, and reevaluations of important writers such as Pope, Swift, and Blake."
— Anthony Lee, author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle
"[T]he collection is well balanced, with a good mix of subjects and methodologies. Paper, Ink, and Achievement is marked by the kind of interdisciplinary scholarship that has always characterized most of the best work in eighteenth-century studies."
— Martine Brownley, author of Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface: Gabriel Hornstein (1935–2017) / Cedric D. Reverand II
Introduction / Kevin L. Cope
Part I. On Publishing
1. Raising the Price of Literature: The Benefactions of William Strahan and Bennett Cerf / J. T. Scanlan
2. Eighteenth-Century Publishers and the Creation of a Fiction Canon / Leah Orr
3. Elizabeth Sadleir, Master Printer and Publisher in Dublin, 1715–1727 / James E. May
Part II. Neglected Authors
4. Ihara Saikaku and the Cash Nexus in Edo-Era Osaka / Susan Spencer
5. Frances Brooke’s Rosina: Subverting Sentimentalism / Linda V. Troost
6. Pope’s An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and Justius Lipsius: Sources and Images of the Writer / Manuel Schonhorn
Part III. Re-evaluating Literary Modes
7. When Worlds Collide: Anti-Methodist Literature and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism in the Critical Review and the Monthly Review / Brett C. McInelly
8. Swift, Dryden, Virgil, and Theories of Epic in Swift’s A Description of a City Shower / David Venturo
9. Tension, Contraries, and Blake’s Augustan Values / Philip Smallwood
Paper, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship
edited by Kevin L. Cope and Cedric D. Reverand II contributions by David Venturo, Philip Smallwood, James E May, Leah Orr, J. T. Scanlan, Susan Spencer, Linda V. Troost, Manuel Schonhorn and Brett C. McInelly
Bucknell University Press, 2021 Cloth: 978-1-68448-252-8 eISBN: 978-1-68448-253-5 Paper: 978-1-68448-251-1
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY KEVIN L. COPE is Adams Professor of English Literature and a member of the comparative literature faculty at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
CEDRIC D. REVERAND II is George Duke Humphrey Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
REVIEWS
"As its title indicates, Pen, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship, is a festschrift honoring the late head and owner of AMS Press, a stalwart house that devoted much of its energies to promoting scholarship of the long eighteenth century. This collection of innovative and largely stylistically lucid essays written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field will be of keen interest to most eighteenth-century scholars and of particular importance to those specializing in print studies and publishing, neglected authors, and reevaluations of important writers such as Pope, Swift, and Blake."
— Anthony Lee, author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle
"[T]he collection is well balanced, with a good mix of subjects and methodologies. Paper, Ink, and Achievement is marked by the kind of interdisciplinary scholarship that has always characterized most of the best work in eighteenth-century studies."
— Martine Brownley, author of Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface: Gabriel Hornstein (1935–2017) / Cedric D. Reverand II
Introduction / Kevin L. Cope
Part I. On Publishing
1. Raising the Price of Literature: The Benefactions of William Strahan and Bennett Cerf / J. T. Scanlan
2. Eighteenth-Century Publishers and the Creation of a Fiction Canon / Leah Orr
3. Elizabeth Sadleir, Master Printer and Publisher in Dublin, 1715–1727 / James E. May
Part II. Neglected Authors
4. Ihara Saikaku and the Cash Nexus in Edo-Era Osaka / Susan Spencer
5. Frances Brooke’s Rosina: Subverting Sentimentalism / Linda V. Troost
6. Pope’s An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and Justius Lipsius: Sources and Images of the Writer / Manuel Schonhorn
Part III. Re-evaluating Literary Modes
7. When Worlds Collide: Anti-Methodist Literature and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism in the Critical Review and the Monthly Review / Brett C. McInelly
8. Swift, Dryden, Virgil, and Theories of Epic in Swift’s A Description of a City Shower / David Venturo
9. Tension, Contraries, and Blake’s Augustan Values / Philip Smallwood
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC