1686 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1686.

List of years in literature (table)
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Events

New books

Prose

  • Pierre BaylePhilosophical Commentary (on religious freedom)
  • Bernard de Fontenelle
  • Gottfried Leibniz
    • Brevis Demonstratio Erroris Memorabilis Cartesii et Aliorum Circa Legem Naturae (A Brief Demonstration of the Memorable Error of Descartes and Others About the Law of Nature)[2]
    • Discours de Métaphysique
  • Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴)
    • Twenty Cases of Unfilial Children (本朝二十不孝 Honchō Nijū Fukō)
    • The Life of an Amorous Woman (好色一代女 Kōshoku Ichidai Onna)
  • Thomas SydenhamSchedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu (Schedule of Symptoms of Newly Arrived Fever)

Children

  • John BunyanA Book for Boys and Girls, or, Country Rhymes for Children

Drama

Poetry

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Benson, Donald R. (Summer 1964). "Theology and Politics in Dryden's Conversion". Studies in English Literature. 4 (3): 393–412. doi:10.2307/449490. JSTOR 449490.
  2. William H. Trapnell (1988). The Treatment of Christian Doctrine by Philosophers of the Natural Light from Descartes to Berkeley. Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-7294-0363-4.
  3. Davies, Sir William Llewelyn. "Alban Thomas (16861771)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  4. William A. Bunch (1975). Jean Mairet: By William A. Bunch. Twayne Publishers. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-8057-2565-0.
  5. Stephen Ward Angell; Stephen W. Angell; Pink Dandelion (8 July 2015). Early Quakers and their Theological Thought. Cambridge University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-107-05052-5.
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