Question
A prominent businessman in this place turned to publishing erotic fiction later in life, such as his series Merryland, which analogized women’s bodies to especially curvy topography. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this erstwhile street in London, a hub for hack publishers like Edmund Curll who peddled fabricated news, plagiarized novels, and other bad writing in the 17th and 18th centuries.
ANSWER: Grub Street
[10m] Curll was depicted as a key contestant in a literal pissing contest and other “heroic games” overseen by the goddess Dulness in this mock epic, which also mocks Lewis Theobald and other denizens of Grub Street.
ANSWER: The Dunciad (by Alexander Pope)
[10e] Curll also had a habit of producing unauthorized companion pieces to popular novels, such as his incredibly inaccurate and advertisement-filled “key” to this author’s novel Gulliver’s Travels.
ANSWER: Jonathan Swift
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