Paper, Ink, and Achievement:

Gabriel Hornstein

A Symposium of the James Smith Noel Collection

Sponsored by The Noel Foundation

April 12–13, 2012, Affinia Shelburne Hotel, New York

THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012

7:30 –9:30 pm

Pre-Conference Reception and Warming

Affinia Shelburne Suite of Noel Collection Curator Robert C. Leitz, III

FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012

9:30–9:45 am

Welcome and Introduction

Robert C. Leitz, III and Kevin L. Cope

9:45–10:30 am

J. T. Scanlan, Providence College, “Three Bibliophiles”

10:30 –11:15 am

Janet Aikins Yount, University of New Hampshire (retired)

“Paper, Ink, and Achievement: The Work that Literature Does”

11:15–11:25 am

BREAK

11:25 am –12:10 pm

James May, Penn State University, Dubois

“Edmund Curll’s Printers, 1706–1726: The Evidence from Cut Ornaments”

12:10–1:45 pm

CATERED LUNCH FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

1:45–2:30 pm

Conference Captain Greg Clingham, Director, Bucknell University Press

Conference Captain’s Post-Mess Address: “The Place of Books”

2:30–3:15 pm

Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University

“The Holes in the Lifesavers: The Explosion of ‘Helpfulness’ in the Buoyant Eighteenth Century”

3:15–3:30 pm

BREAK

3:30–4:15 pm

Jack Lynch, Rutgers University

“Generous and Liberal-Minded: Packaging Johnson and His Age”

4:15–5:00 pm

Cedric Reverand, University of Wyoming

“The Unreadable Dunciad: In Four Unreadable Books”

5:00 pm

Achieving in Paper and Ink: Comments from Conference Honoree Gabriel Hornstein, President, AMS Press

Noel Memorial Library, Shreveport