1761 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• On the death of Johann Matthias Gesner, the chair of rhetoric at the University of Göttingen is refused by both Johann August Ernesti and by David Ruhnken. It eventually goes to Christian Gottlob Heyne.

[edit] New books

• Denis Diderot - Le neveu de Rameau
• Tiphaigne de la Roche - L'Empire des Zaziris sur les humains ou la Zazirocratie
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse
• Frances Sheridan - Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

[edit] New drama

• George Colman the Elder – The Jealous Wife
• Richard Cumberland - The Banishment of Cicero
• Carlo Gozzi - The Love for Three Oranges

[edit] Poetry

• John Cleland - The Times!, vol. 2

[edit] Non-fiction

• Baron d'Holbach - Christianity unveiled
• Henry Home, Lord Kames - Introduction to the Art of Thinking

[edit] Births

• May 3 - August von Kotzebue (died 1819)
• September 8 - François Juste Marie Raynouard (died 1836)

[edit] Deaths

• April 9 - William Law, theologian (born 1686)
• April 15 - William Oldys, bibliographer (born 1696)
• July 4 - Samuel Richardson, novelist (born 1689)
• August 3 - Johann Matthias Gesner, librarian and classical scholar (born 1691)