1704 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1704.
Events
New books
Prose
- Joseph Addison – The Campaign
- Mary Astell – A Fair Way with Dissenters and their Patrons (reply to Defoe)
- Willem Bosman – Nauwkeurige beschrijving van de Guinese Goud- Tand- en Slavekust (A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory coasts)[2]
- William Chillingworth – The Works of William Chillingworth
- Mary Davys – The Amours of Alcyippus and Leucippe
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- The Dissenters Answer to the High-Church Challenge
- An Elegy on the Author of the True-Born English-man
- An Essay on the Regulation of the Press (attrib.)
- Giving Alms No Charity, and Employing the Poor a Grievance to the Nation
- A Hymn to Victory
- More Short-Ways with the Dissenters
- A Review of the Affairs of France
- The Storm
- John Dennis – The Person of Quality's Answer to Mr Collier's Letter
- "Dictionnaire de Trévoux" (Dictionnaire universel françois et latin)
- Andrew Fletcher – An Account of a Conversation Concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the Good of Mankind
- Pierre Jurieu – Histoire critique des dogmes et des cultes
- White Kennett – The Christian Scholar (attrib.)
- Sarah Kemble Knight – The Journals of Madam Knight
- Charles Leslie – The Wolf Stript of his Shepherd's Clothing (against Defoe'sShortest Way)
- Paul Lucas – Voyage du Sieur Paul Lucas au Levant
- Bernard de Mandeville – Typhon
- Isaac Newton – Opticks
- Mary Pix – Violenta
- George Psalmanazar – An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (hoax)
- Matthew Prior – A Letter to Monsieur Boileau Depreaux
Drama
Poetry
Births
Deaths
Notes and References
- Book: John Henry Crockatt. John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough. 1970. Quentin Nelson. 70.
- Wilks . Ivor . Bosman New and Costly . The Journal of African History . 1968 . 9 . 1 . 164–166 . 0021-8537. 179928 . 10.1017/S0021853700008434 .
- Web site: Charles Duclos (1704-1772) . data.bnf.fr . 16 June 2018 . en.
- Book: Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897. CUP Archive. 13.
- Book: Joseph Thomas. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. 1870. J.B. Lippincott and Company. 45.
- Book: John Locke. The Works of John Locke. 1823. Thomas Tegg. 297.