Alexander Pope, Pamphlets on Edmund Curll

Pat Rogers (University of South Florida)

Ed. by Nicholas Seager, University of Keele
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1716 - 1720

Places

England (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Pamphlets/ Tracts/ Chapbooks
Satire

Resources

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 (1716)

A Further Account of the Most Deplorable condition of Mr. Edmund Curll. Since his being Poison’d on the 28^th of March (1716)

A Strange but True Relation How Edmund Curll, of Fleetstreet, Stationer, Out of an Extraordinary Desire of Lucre, went into Change Alley, and was Converted from the Christian Religion by certain Eminent Jews: And How he was Circumcis’d and Initiated into their Mysteries (1720)

Three pamphlets directed against the …

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Citation: Rogers, Pat. "Pamphlets on Edmund Curll". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 October 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39368, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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