1748 in literature

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The year 1748 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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The French break the British siege of Pondicherry.
End of the War of the Austrian Succession with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle
While in debtor's prison in London, John Cleland writes Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill, considered the first modern "erotic novel" by some.
Euler’s fifth paper on nautical topics, E137, is written but published later, in 1750.

Mark Akenside - An Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon
George Anson - A Voyage Round the World
John Cleland - Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (aka Fanny Hill)
Robert Dodsley - A Collection of Poems (a publisher's anthology)
Eliza Haywood - Life's Progress through the Passions (novel)
James Hervey - Meditations and Contemplations
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- - Three Essays, Moral and Political
William Kenrick - The Town
Mary Leapor - Poems
William Melmoth, as "Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, bart." - Letters
Montesquieu - De l'esprit des lois (The Spirit of the Laws)
Ambrose Philips - Pastorals, Epistles, Odes and Other Original Poems
Laetitia Pilkington - Memoirs
Samuel Richardson - Clarissa, vols. ii - vii
Thomas Sheridan - The Simile
Tobias Smollett
- The Adventures of Roderick Random
- English translation of The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain-René Le Sage
James Thomson - The Castle of Indolence
François-Vincent Toussaint - Les Mœurs
Horace Walpole - A Second and Third Letter to the Whigs
Thomas Warton - Poems
John Wesley - A Letter to a Person Lately Join'd with the People call'd Quakers
Peter Whalley - An Enquiry into the Learning of Shakespeare