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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.
The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural
movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been
characterized as a mostly secular phenomenon that ultimately
undermined religious authority and belief, and eventually gave way
to the secularization of Western society and to modernity. To
whatever extent the Enlightenment can be credited with giving birth
to modern Western culture, historians in more recent years have
aptly demonstrated that the Enlightenment hardly singled the death
knell of religion. Not only did religion continue to occupy a
central pace in political, social, and private life throughout the
eighteenth century, but it shaped the Enlightenment project itself
in significant and meaningful ways. The thinkers and philosophers
normally associated with the Enlightenment, to be sure, challenged
state-sponsored church authority and what they perceived as
superstitious forms of belief and practice, but they did not mount
a campaign to undermine religion generally. A more productive
approach to understanding religion in the age of Enlightenment,
then, is to examine the ways the Enlightenment informed religious
belief and practice during the period as well as the ways religion
influenced the Enlightenment and to do so from a range of
disciplinary perspectives, which is the goal of this collection.
The chapters document the intersections of religious and
Enlightenment ideas in such areas as theology, the natural
sciences, politics, the law, art, philosophy, and literature.
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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