Paul Baines (1) (1961–)
Autore di Edmund Curll, Bookseller
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Opere di Paul Baines
Opere correlate
Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal Texts (Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought) (2015) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Baines, Paul
- Data di nascita
- 1961-07-26
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK (birth)
- Istruzione
- University of Cambridge (1983 )
University of Bristol (PhD, 1998)
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 86
- Popolarità
- #213,013
- Voto
- 3.1
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 47
Baines and Rogers sought very explicitly to offer a scholarly treatment of Curll's life and work, and they have certainly accomplished that goal. This is a dense and detailed examination of the publications which emanated from Curll's pen, press and shops over the course of his career, as well as a dispassionate and reasoned account of his relations with his comrades in the book and printing trades, his authors and translators, and his many antagonists (beyond Pope, these included Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding, just to name the prominences). The authors' aim, as they put it, is to take a sober look at Curll's output with an eye toward the non-controversial items he published and sold (basic works on theology, for example, as well as an extensive list of books pertaining to English antiquities), in order to gain a more complete understanding of the man.
Baines and Rogers conclude that Curll's major innovations in the book trade came through his unorthodox use of promotion and publicity; they point out that while we today view the use of notoriety to sell things as perfectly normal, in the early to mid-eighteenth century it was a "disturbing novelty" (pg. 315). Curll's practices (publishing pamphlets critical of his own prior publications, for example, to drive of sales of both) made him more than a few enemies, but they also unquestionably sold many books. A master of cheek, understatement ("Curll could do more with an et cetera than anybody else in recorded history" - pg. 172), and wit, Edmund Curll built himself a much-deserved reputation in his time as a rascal; and rascals, as we all know, usually make for the most interesting historical subjects. Curll's certainly no exception.
Meticulously-researched and footnoted (albeit with a rather odd combination of footnotes and endnotes which seemed to switch back and forth somewhat idiosyncratically), Edmund Curll, Bookseller must give all bibliophiles and fans of Curll reason to celebrate; this book has been a long time coming.
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