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

AMS Press president Gabriel Hornstein stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies, sponsoring countless publications while creating a global audience for an obscure specialty. Paper, Ink, and Achievement celebrates Hornstein through three sets of essays evaluating the influence of publishers on cultural legacies; the effect of book enthusiasts on literary canons; and favorite long-eighteenth-century literary modes. Paper, Ink, and Achievement commemorates a publishing magnate whose temperate energy propelled his favorite discipline in multitudinous new directions.

List of Illustrations 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