1777 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1777.
Events
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
See main article: 1777 in poetry.
Non-fiction
- Hugh Blair – Sermons
- Jacques-François Blondel – Cours d'architecture ou traité de la décoration, distribution et constructions des bâtiments contenant les leçons données en 1750, et les années suivantes, vol. 9
- Edmund Burke – Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
- James Cook – A Voyage Toward the South Pole
- Georg Forster – A Voyage Round the World in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the Years, 1772, 3, 4, and 5[6]
- Nicolás Fernández de Moratín – Carta histórica sobre el origen y progresos de las fiestas de toros en España
- John Howard – The State of the Prisons in England and Wales
- David Hume – The Life of David Hume
- Hannah More – Essays
- Maurice Morgann – An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
- Joseph Priestley
- Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit
- The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated
- Isaac Reed – The Repository
- William Robertson – The History of America
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield – Characters
- Johannes Nikolaus Tetens – Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwicklung (Philosophical Essays on Human Nature and Its Development)
Births
Deaths
Notes and References
- Book: Cox, Michael . The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press . 2004 . 0-19-860634-6 . registration .
- http://www.janeausten.co.uk/only-a-novel-the-life-of-fanny-burney/ Only a Novel: The Life of Fanny Burney, 15 July 2011. Accessed 7 February 2013.
- Book: Williams, Hywel . Cassell's Chronology of World History . London . Weidenfeld & Nicolson . 2005 . 0-304-35730-8 . 331 .
- Book: Manushag N. Powell. Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-century English Periodicals. 2012. Lexington Books. 978-1-61148-416-8. 200.
- Book: Leavis, Q. D. . Q. D. Leavis . Fiction and the Reading Public . rev. . London . Chatto & Windus . 1965.
- Liebersohn . Harry . A Radical Intellectual with Captain Cook: George Forster's world voyage . Common-Place . January 2005 . 05 . 2 . 6 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190706055250/http://common-place.org/book/a-radical-intellectual-with-captain-cook-george-forsters-world-voyage/ . 6 July 2019 . dead .
- Book: Samuel Foote. The Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author. 1797. A. Millar. 6.