Edmund Curll, Bookseller
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 January 2007
- ISBN 9780199278985
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 240x160x24 mm
- Weight 822 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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Short description:
Edmund Curll (1683-1747) was 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 is the first full scholarly biography of his life, and gives a lively, unbiased, and accurate account of Curll's varied and distinctive publishing output.
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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.
We will never get into Curll's head, but this book gives us an immensely improved factual basis for understanding his operations as a publisher.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Beginnings: 1683-1706
In Business: 1707-1710
The Four Last Years of Queen Anne: 1710-1714
Trading Blows: 1714-1716
The Devil's Scout: 1716-1718
Curlicism Displayed: 1717-1720
Antiquities and Politics: 1717-1722
Trials: 1722-1728
Tribulations: 1726-1728
The Dunciad: 1728-1730
Going it Alone: 1728-1732
Covent Garden Drollery: 1732-1734
Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence: 1734-1736
Gold from Dirt: 1737-1742
Closing the Books: 1741-1747
Afterword
Appendix 1: Curll's Will
Appendix 2: Curll's Payments to Authors
