1742 in literature

none December 2013 1742 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1742. Events February – Henry Fielding's picaresque novel Joseph Andrews appears in London as The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. Described by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it is his first full-length novel and among the earliest in the English language. A second edition appears on June 10.Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews and Shamela, ed. Thomas Keymer. Oxford: World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 2008 9780199536986. December 2 – The Pennsylvania Journal first appears in the United States. December – The novelist and dramatist Pierre de Marivaux is elected to the Académie française.Ian Davidson Voltaire: A Life https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_p9Z8z9-wYC&pg=PT226 9 December 2010 Profile Books 1-84765-224-7 226 unknown dates The Irish portraitist Charles Jervas' English translation of Don Quixote is published three years after his death. Through a printer's error, the translator's name is printed as "Charles Jarvis", leading to the book being known forever as the "Jarvis" translation. It is acclaimed as the most faithful English rendering of the novel up to this time.Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote https://books.google.com/books?id=rURkAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR35 2003 University of Georgia Press 978-0-8203-2430-2 35 The Stockholm Gazette, founded by Peter Momma, begins publication.Allen Kent Harold Lancour William Z. Nasri Jay Elwood Daily Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science https://books.google.com/books?id=Ox0OOCJ5fysC 1968 M. Dekker 978-0-8247-2023-0 462 The publisher Robert Foulis acquires his own printing press in Glasgow. The French typefounder Pierre Simon Fournier's Modèles des Caractères presents his system of point sizes for typography.R. C. Elliott The development if the 'point' unit of type measurement Monotype Recorder 1933 30 241 The Monotype Corporation London 11494675 New books Fiction Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – The Sofa: A Moral Tale (Le Sopha, conte moral) Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews Eliza Haywood – The Virtuous Villager Charles Jervas (translator) – Don Quixote Drama Charlotte Charke – Tit for Tat Charles Jennens – libretto for Handel's oratorio the Messiah José de Cañizares – El anillo de Giges Ignacio de Luzán – La virtud coronada Poetry 1742 in poetry William Collins – Persian Eclogues Thomas Cooke – Original Poems James Hammond – Love Elegies James Merrick – The Destruction of Troy William Shenstone – The School-Mistress William Somervile – Field Sports Charles Hanbury Williams – The Country Girl: An ode Edward Young – Night Thoughts Non-fiction Colley Cibber – A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope (in re Pope's satirizing of Cibber) Ignacio de Luzán – Carta en defensa de España Philip Doddridge – Evidences of Christianity Pierre Simon Fournier – Modèles des Caractères Nathaniel Hooke – An Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough from her first coming to Court to the year 1710 Edmond Hoyle – A Short Treatise on the Game of WhistBodle Andy Guide to games: Leaders of the pack: A short history of cards https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/22/history-of-playing-cards The Guardian 22 November 2008 24 April 2019 David Hume – Essays Moral and Political vol. ii Benito Jerónimo Feijoo – Cartas eruditas y curiosas Colin Maclaurin – Treatise on Fluxions John Oldmixon – Memoirs of the Press, Historical and Political Horace Walpole and Sir Charles Hanbury Williams – The Lessons for the Day (satire on William Pulteney, Bolingbroke and the "Patriot Whigs"). William Warburton – A Critical and Philosophical Commentary on Mr. Pope's Essay on Man John Wesley The Character of a Methodist The Principles of a Methodist George Whitefield – Nine Sermons Births January 1 – Isaac Reed, English Shakespearean editor (died 1807) March 25 – William Combe, English writer, poet and adventurer (died 1823) June 25 – Johann Schweighäuser, German classical scholar (died 1830) September 14 – James Wilson, American pamphleteer and publisher (died 1798) October 6 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian author (died 1785) unknown dates Ralph Broome, English pamphleteer (died 1805) Mihály Bakos (Miháo Bakoš), Slovene hymnist and Lutheran minister in Hungary (died 1803) Deaths March 23 – Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French author (born 1670) April 27 – Nicholas Amhurst, English poet and political writer (born 1697) July 9 – John Oldmixon, English historian (born 1673) July 14 – Richard Bentley, English scholar and critic (born 1662) July 19 – William Somervile, English poet (born 1675) November 24 – Andrew Bradford, American publisher (born 1686) References 30em