Download or read book Edmund Curll Bookseller written by Paul Baines and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Curll was a one-man publishing firm, a figure notorious in his day and something of a comic figure ever since thanks to his enmity with Alexander Pope. This biography of his life gives an account of his varied and distinctive publishing output.
Download or read book The Unspeakable Curll written by Ralph Straus and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edmund Curll Bookseller written by Paul Baines and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Curll was a one-man publishing firm, a figure notorious in his day and something of a comic figure ever since thanks to his enmity with Alexander Pope. This biography of his life gives an account of his varied and distinctive publishing output.
Download or read book The Unspeakable Curll Being Some Account of Edmund Curll Bookseller to which is Added a Full List of His Books With Plates written by Ralph Straus and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edmund Curll Bookseller written by Paul Baines and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Curll was a notorious figure among the publishers of the early eighteenth century: for his boldness, his lack of scruple, his publication of work without author's consent, and his taste for erotic and scandalous publications. He was in legal trouble on several occasions for piracy and copyright infringement, unauthorised publication of the works of peers, and for seditious, blasphemous, and obscene publications. He stood in the pillory in 1728 for seditious libel. Above all, he was the constant target of the greatest poet and satirist of his age, Alexander Pope, whose work he pirated whenever he could and who responded with direct physical revenge (an emetic slipped into a drink) and persistent malign caricature. The war between Pope and Curll typifies some of the main cultural battles being waged between creativity and business. The story has normally been told from the poet's point of view, though more recently Curll has been celebrated as a kind of literary freedom-fighter; this book, the first full biography of Curll since Ralph Straus's The Unspeakable Curll (1927), seeks to give a balanced and thoroughly-researched account of Curll's career in publishing between 1706 and 1747, untangling the mistakes and misrepresentations that have accrued over the years and restoring a clear sense of perspective to Curll's dealings in the literary marketplace. It examines the full range of Curll's output, including his notable antiquarian series, and uses extensive archive material to detail Curll's legal and other troubles. For the first time, what is known about this strange, interesting, and awkward figure is authoritatively told.
Download or read book The Unspeakable Curll written by Ralph Straus and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Further Account of the Most Deplorable Condition of Mr Edmund Curll Bookseller Since His Being Poison d on the 28th of March to Be Publish d Weekly written by ALEXANDER. POPE and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T005675 Anonymous. By Alexander Pope. A sequel to 'A full and true account of a horrid and barbarous revenge by poison, on the body of Mr. Edmund Curll'. With a half-title. London: printed, and sold by all the publishers, mercuries, and hawkers, within the bills of mortality, 1716. 22p.; 8°
Download or read book The Poet and the Publisher written by Pat Rogers and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher.”—Leo Damrosch, author of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age “What sets Rogers’s history apart is his ability to combine fastidious research with lucid, unpretentious prose. History buffs and literary-minded readers alike are in for a punchy, drama-filled treat.”—Publishers Weekly The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history of the book, when two remarkable figures with a gift for comedy and an immoderate dislike of each other clashed publicly and without restraint. However, it has never, until now, been chronicled in full. Ripe with the sights and smells of Hanoverian London, The Poet and Publisher details their vitriolic exchanges, drawing on previously unearthed pamphlets, newspaper articles, and advertisements, court and government records, and personal letters. The story of their battles in and out of print includes a poisoning, the pillory, numerous instances of fraud, and a landmark case in the history of copyright. The book is a forensic account of events both momentous and farcical, and it is indecently entertaining.
Download or read book The Humble Representation of Edmund Curll Bookseller and Citizen of London written by Edmund Curll and published by . This book was released on 1725* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curll Papers written by William John Thoms and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curll Papers Stray Notes on the Life and Publications of Edmund Curll written by Anonymous and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... the Lives, Characters, &c. of Men of this Stamp, than I can pretend to he, I would not willingly anticipate a Thing that will imake so great a Figure, in all Probability, one Time or other, in his full and true Accounts." In place of this, however, we will give some particulars as to his " whereabouts" at different periods of his varied career. As a Bookseller, his frequent changes of residence, as shown on the title-pages of his various publications, would seem to indicate that, with all his tricks and ingenuity, he was by no means a successful tradesman. 1708. This is the earliest date at which we have met with Curll's name on a title-page. A translation ofBoileau'sLutrin was published in 1708, among others by " E. Sanger and . Curll, at the Post House at the Middle Temple Gate, and at the Peacock without Temple Bar." 1709. Muscimda was published by him, "ad insigne ravonis extra Temple Bar." 1710. We find him removed to the premises formerly occupied by the well-known bookseller A. Bosvill; for A Complete Key to the Tale of a Tub, &c. was "printed for Edmund Curll, at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street." Here he remained certainly until 1718; but in 1720, we find him removed to Paternoster Row; where, in that year, he appears to have published Jacob's Lives of the Poets. 1723 shows another removal, for in that year Nichols (Lit. Anec. iv. 273.) states that he lived " over against Catherine Street in the Strand," and ne was living there in 1726, when he published Ashmole's Order of the Garter. In 1728 he is still described on title-pages as "in the Strand;" but Mrs. Thomas speaks of him in 1729 as living "next to Will's Coffee House, in Bow Street, Covent Garden;" and that is the place of publication...
Download or read book Two Augustan Booksellers written by Peter Murray Hill and published by Lawrence : University of Kansas Libraries, 1958 [c1959]. This book was released on 1958 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptors: book collecting, Curll, Dunton.
Download or read book A Full and True Account of a Horrid and Barbarous Revenge by Poison on the Body of Mr Edmund Curll Bookseller with a Faithful Copy of His Last Will and Testament Publish d by an Eye Witness By Alexander Pope written by Edmund Curll and published by . This book was released on 1716 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The German Invention of Race written by Sara Eigen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The German Invention of Race, historians, philosophers, and scholars in literary, cultural, and religious studies trace the origins of the concept of "race" to Enlightenment Germany and seek to understand the issues at work in creating a definition of race. The work introduces a significant connection to the history of race theory as contributors show that the language of race was deployed in contexts as apparently unrelated as hygiene; aesthetics; comparative linguistics; anthropology; debates over the status of science, theology, and philosophy; and Jewish emancipation. The concept of race has no single point of origin, and has never operated within the constraints of a single definition. As the essays in this book trace the powerful resonances of the term in diverse contexts, both before and long after the invention of the scientific term around 1775, they help explain how this pseudoconcept could, in a few short decades, have become so powerful in so many fields of thought and practice. In addition, the essays show that the fateful rise of racial thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was made possible not only by the establishment of physical anthropology as a field, but also by other disciplines and agendas linked by the enduring associations of the word "race."
Download or read book Curll Papers written by William John Thoms and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of Poems Plays and Novels Printed for E Curll at the Dial and Bible Over Against Catharine Street in the Strand written by Edmund Curll and published by . This book was released on 1717* with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to Literary Biography written by Richard Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative review of literary biography covering the seventeenth century to the twentieth century A Companion to Literary Biography offers a comprehensive account of literary biography spanning the history of the genre across three centuries. The editor – an esteemed literary biographer and noted expert in the field – has encouraged contributors to explore the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the writing of biographies of writers. The text examines how biographers have dealt with the lives of classic authors from Chaucer to contemporary figures such as Kingsley Amis. The Companion brings a new perspective on how literary biography enables the reader to deal with the relationship between the writer and their work. Literary biography is the most popular form of writing about writing, yet it has been largely neglected in the academic community. This volume bridges the gap between literary biography as a popular genre and its relevance for the academic study of literature. This important work: Allows the author of a biography to be treated as part of the process of interpretation and investigates biographical reading as an important aspect of criticism Examines the birth of literary biography at the close of the seventeenth century and considers its expansion through the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Addresses the status and writing of literary biography from numerous perspectives and with regard to various sources, methodologies and theories Reviews the ways in which literary biography has played a role in our perception of writers in the mainstream of the English canon from Chaucer to the present day Written for students at the undergraduate level, through postgraduate and doctoral levels, as well as academics, A Companion to Literary Biography illustrates and accounts for the importance of the literary biography as a vital element of criticism and as an index to our perception of literary history.
