The Gottschalk Prize is awarded for an outstanding historical or critical study on the 18th century and carries a prize of US$1,000. It is named in honour of Louis Gottschalk (1899–1975), second President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), President of the American Historical Association, and for many years Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His scholarship exemplified the humanistic ideals that this award is meant to encourage.
Gottschalk Prize Recipients
The prize is awarded annually.
1970–1979
1979-80 – James L. Clifford, Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years (McGraw-Hill) 1978-79 – Morris R. Brownell, Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England (Clarendon Press) 1977-78 – John G.A. Pocock, The Political Writings of James Harrington (Cambridge University Press) 1976-77 – Margaret C. Jacob, The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689–1720 (Cornell University Press).
1980–1989
1980-81 – Michael Fried, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot (University of California Press) 1981-82 – H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: A Documentary Study (Rizzoli International Publications) 1982-83 – John Sitter, Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England (Cornell University Press) 1983-84 – Irvin Ehrenpreis, Swift: The Man, His Work, and the Age (Harvard University Press) 1984-85 – David B. Morris, Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (Harvard University Press) 1985-86 – Michael Mooney, Vico in the Tradition of Rhetoric (Princeton University Press) 1986-87 – J. M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660–1800 (Princeton University Press) 1987-88 – John Bender, Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England (University of Chicago Press) 1988-89 – Damie Stillman, English Neo-Classical Architecture. 2 Vols. (Zwemmer) 1989-90 – Shared by Felicity A. Nussbaum, The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Jeremy D. Popkin, News and Politics in the Age of Revolution (Cornell University Press)
1990–1999
1990-91 – J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (W.W. Norton) 1991-93 – Shared by Joseph M. Levine, The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age (Cornell University Press) and Barbara Maria Stafford, Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine (MIT Press) 1993-94 – Gananath Obeyesekere, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific (Princeton University Press) — Honorable Mention to Madelyn Gutwirth, The Twilight of the Goddesses: Women and Representation in the French Revolutionary Era (Rutgers University Press) 1994-95 – Daniel Vickers, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 (The University of North Carolina Press) 1995-96 – Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England (University of Michigan) 1996-97 – Steven L. Kaplan, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700–1775 (Cornell University Press) 1997-98 – Stuart Sherman, Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form 1660–1785 (The University of Chicago Press) 1998-99 – Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (The University of Chicago Press) 1999-2000 – Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact (The University of Chicago Press)