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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.
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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
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.
Summary
During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of’long' eighteenth-century studies. Paper, Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario a vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment.
