1686_in_literature
1686 in literature
Overview of the events of 1686 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1686.
- January – John Dryden is recorded as having converted to Roman Catholicism.[1]
Prose
- Pierre Bayle – Philosophical Commentary (on religious freedom)
- Bernard de Fontenelle
- Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds)
- L'Histoire des oracles
- Gottfried Leibniz
- 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 Sydenham – Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu (Schedule of Symptoms of Newly Arrived Fever)
Children
- John Bunyan – A Book for Boys and Girls, or, Country Rhymes for Children
Drama
Poetry
- Anne Killigrew (posthumously) – Poems
- January 17 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (died 1766)
- August 12 – John Balguy, English philosopher (died 1748)
- September 5 – Antoine Touron, French historian and biographer (died 1775)
- unknown date – Alban Thomas, Welsh physician and antiquarian (died 1771)[3]
- January 31 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (born 1604)[4]
- February 6 – Dorothy White, English Quaker pamphleteer (born c. 1630)[5]
- February 10 – William Dugdale, English antiquary and herald (born 1605)
- February 25 – Abraham Calovius, German Lutheran theologian (born 1612)
- June 23 – Sir William Coventry, English statesman and author (born c. 1628)
- July 10 – John Fell, English academic and bishop (born 1625)
- August 13 – Louis Maimbourg, French Jesuit historian (born 1610)
- November 25 – Nicolas Steno (Niels Steenson), Danish scientist (born 1638)
- November 28 – Nicolas Letourneux, French religious writer (born 1640)
- December 6 – Nicola Avancini, Italian Jesuit writer (born 1612)
- 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.
- 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.
- Davies, Sir William Llewelyn. "Alban Thomas (1686–1771)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- William A. Bunch (1975). Jean Mairet: By William A. Bunch. Twayne Publishers. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-8057-2565-0.
- 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.