1817 in literature
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The year 1817 in literature involved some significant new books, including Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy, Lord Byron's Manfred, Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, and the death of Jane Austen mid-year.
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[edit] Events
- Harper & Row publishing house is founded.
[edit] New books
- Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
- Manuel Aires de Casal - Corografia Brasílica
- Selina Davenport - Woman's Privilege
- Maria Edgeworth - Ormond and Harrington
- Ann Hatton - Gonzalo de Balvidio
- Edward Moore - The Mysteries of Hungary
- Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - A Bride and No Wife
- Anna Maria Porter - The Knight of St. John
- Sir Walter Scott - Rob Roy
- Catherine Selden - Villa Santelle
- Elizabeth Thomas - Claudine
[edit] New drama
- Franz Grillparzer - Die Ahnfrau
- Richard Lalor Sheil - The Apostate
[edit] Poetry
- Lord Byron - Manfred
- Thomas Moore - Lalla Rookh
- Robert Southey - Wat Tyler: A Dramatic Poem
[edit] Non-fiction
- William Cobbett - Paper against Gold, the History and Mystery of the Bank of England
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria
- William Hazlitt - Characters in Shakespeare's Plays
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
- David Ricardo - On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
[edit] Births
- February 21 - José Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet
- May 21 - Rudolf Hermann Lotze, philosopher
- July 12 - Henry David Thoreau (+ 1862)
- September 14 - Theodor Storm, novelist and poet
[edit] Deaths
- July 14 - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, author
- July 18 - Jane Austen, author
[edit] Awards
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