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.

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