Paper, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1684482518 ISBN 13: 9781684482511

Publisher: Bucknell University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1684482518
• ISBN 13: 9781684482511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Cope Kevin L., Reverand II Cedric D.