1741 in Literature - New Books

New Books

  • Anonymous
    • The Life of Pamela (parody of Richardson's Pamela)
    • Pamela Censured
  • Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer (new edition revives interest in Chaucer's tales)
  • Stephen Duck - Every Man in his Own Way
  • Henry Fielding (as "Mr. Conny Keyber") - An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
  • Eliza Haywood - The Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected
  • Ludvig Holberg - Niels Klim's Underground Travels
  • John Kelly - Pamela's Conduct in High Life (continuation of Pamela)
  • Robert Craggs Nugent - An Ode to Mankind
  • Alexander Pope with John Gay and John Arbuthnot - Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
  • Charles Povey - The Virgin in Eden (prose fiction)
  • Samuel Richardson
    • Letters Written to and for Particular Friends (aka "Familiar Letters")
    • Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded vols. iii - iv
  • John and Charles Wesley - A Collection of Psalms and Hymns
  • Hristofor Zhefarovich - Stemmatographia

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