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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1748'''.

==Events==
*January – The play ''[[Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura]]'' (義経千本桜, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees, by Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and [[Namiki Senryū I]]) receives its [[Kabuki]] première in [[Ise, Mie|Ise]].<ref>{{Cite book |author=Alison McQueen Tokita |title=Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eW1BDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT210 |date=2 March 2017 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-351-92551-8 |pages=210}}</ref> In May, it receives its first [[Edo]] performance at the [[Nakamura-za]] and in August first performances in [[Osaka]] at the [[Naka no Shibai]].
*[[October 19]] – [[David Garrick]] revives [[Philip Massinger]]'s play ''[[A New Way to Pay Old Debts]]'' (written c. 1625) in London.<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Monthly Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JSgaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA523|year=1838|pages=523}}</ref>
*[[November 21]] – The first instalment of ''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'', also known as ''[[Fanny Hill]]'', is published anonymously by [[John Cleland]] to raise money to free himself from the London [[debtors' prison]]. It is considered by some to be the first modern [[erotic novel]].
*[[December 18]] – The [[Royal Danish Theatre]] is founded, with the opening of the King's Theatre in Copenhagen.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Norman Renouf |title=Copenhagen and the Best of Denmark Alive! |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oABD-Tf4y8oC&pg=PT15 |year=2003 |publisher=Hunter Publishing, Inc |isbn=978-1-58843-355-8 |pages=15}}</ref>
*''unknown dates''
**[[Leonhard Euler]] publishes, in Berlin, one of the two works for which he will be most renowned: the ''[[Introductio in analysin infinitorum]]''. Euler's fifth paper on nautical topics, E137, is also written in this year but not published until 1750.
**The [[Gospel of Matthew]] in the [[Manx language]], as ''Yn Sushtcml scruit liorish yn Noo Mian'', is the first translation of a [[New Testament]] text into that language, under the auspices of the [[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]].<ref>{{Cite journal |first=G. W. |last=Wood |title=An Account of the Translation and Editions of the Holy Scriptures in the Manx Language |url=http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/history/manks/script.htm |journal=The Manx Church Magazine |volume=6 |year=1896}}</ref>

==New books==
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===Prose===
*Richard Walton – [[George Anson, 1st Baron Anson|Anson]]'s ''A Voyage Round the World''<ref>{{cite book|title=Catalogue of the Library of the Government of Victoria|publisher=Mason & Frith|year=1864|page=231}}</ref>
*[[Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens]] (attributed) – ''[[Thérèse the Philosopher|Thérèse philosophe]]''<ref>Darnton, Robert, ''The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France'', W. W. Norton & Company, 1996 {{ISBN|0-393-31442-1}}</ref>
*[[John Cleland]] – ''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'' (also known as ''[[Fanny Hill]]'')
*[[Denis Diderot]]
**''Les Bijoux indiscrets'' (''[[The Indiscreet Jewels]]'', novel)<ref>P. N. Furbank (1992). Diderot:A Critical Biography. Twayne. p. 44</ref>
**''Memoires sur differents sujets de mathematique''
*[[Eliza Haywood]] – ''Life's Progress through the Passions'' (novel)<ref>Spedding, Patrick (2004). A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. London: Pickering & Chatto</ref>
*[[James Hervey]] – ''Meditations and Contemplations''
*[[David Hume]] – ''[[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Edmund Jessop|title=A Bibliography of David Hume and of Scottish Philosophy from Francis Hutcheson to Lord Balfour|year=1966|pages=12-20}}</ref>
*[[Edmond Hoyle]] – ''Mr. Hoyle's Treatises of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess and Back-Gammon'' (collected edition)
*[[William Kenrick (writer)|William Kenrick]] – ''The Town''
*[[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]] – ''De l'Esprit des lois ([[The Spirit of the Laws]])''<ref>{{Cite book |title=De l'Esprit des loix ou du Rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la constitution de chaque gouvernement, les moeurs, le climat, la religion, le commerce, &c . à quoi l'auteur a ajouté des recherches nouvelles sur les loix romaines touchant les successions, sur les loix françoises, & sur les loix féodales  |place= A Genève, chez Barrillot & fils  |edition= 1 |volume= I |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8618461c/f9.image.r=Montesquieu%20De%20l'Esprit%20des%20Lois |access-date=September 7, 2016|via=Gallica}}</ref>
*[[Laetitia Pilkington]] – ''Memoirs''<ref>{{cite web |last= Clarke |first= Norma |title= Laetitia Pilkington (c. 1709–50): scandalous woman and memoirist |date= 5 March 2013 | publisher= History Ireland |url= https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/laetitia-pilkington-c-1709-50-scandalous-woman-and-memoirist/| access-date = 4 June 2020}}</ref>
*[[Samuel Richardson]] (anonymously) – ''[[Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady|Clarissa]]'', vols. ii – vii (earlier vols. dated 1748 actually published 1747)
*[[Thomas Sheridan (actor)|Thomas Sheridan]] – ''The Simile''
*[[Tobias Smollett]]
**''[[The Adventures of Roderick Random]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Tobias George Smollett|title=The Adventures of Roderick Random: In Two Volumes..|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0QsUAAAAQAAJ|year=1748|publisher=J. Osborn}}</ref>
**English translation of ''[[Gil Blas|The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane]]'' by [[Alain-René Le Sage]]
*[[François-Vincent Toussaint]] – ''Les Mœurs''
*[[Voltaire]] – ''[[Zadig]]'' (in final form)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198661252.001.0001/acref-9780198661252-e-4886|title=Zadig|website=Oxford Reference|access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref>
*[[Horace Walpole]] – ''A Second and Third Letter to the Whigs''
*[[John Wesley]] – ''A Letter to a Person Lately Join'd with the People call'd Quakers''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-letter-to-a-person-lat_wesley-john_1748_1|title=Letter to a Person Lately Join'd with the People call'd Quakers|website=Internet Archive|access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref>
*[[Peter Whalley (clergyman)|Peter Whalley]] – ''An Enquiry into the Learning of Shakespeare''
*[[Diego de Torres Villarroel]] – ''De los temblores y otros movimientos de la tierra llamados vulgarmente terremotos''

===Drama===
*[[Jean-François Marmontel]] – ''Denys le Tyran''
*[[Edward Moore (dramatist)|Edward Moore]] – ''[[The Foundling (play)|The Foundling]]''
*Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū – ''[[Kanadehon Chūshingura]]'' (仮名手本忠臣蔵, original version for [[bunraku]] puppet theatre)
*[[Alexander Sumarokov]] – ''Gamlet: Tragediya'' (adapted from Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'')

===Poetry===
*[[Mark Akenside]] – ''An Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon''
*[[Robert Dodsley]] – ''A Collection of Poems'' (a publisher's anthology)
*[[Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock]] (anonymously) – ''[[Der Messias (Klopstock)|Der Messias]]'' (first three [[canto]]s)
*[[Mary Leapor]] (died 1746) – ''Poems''
*[[Ambrose Philips]] – ''Pastorals, Epistles, Odes and Other Original Poems''
*[[James Thomson (poet, born 1700)|James Thomson]] – ''[[The Castle of Indolence]]''
*[[Thomas Warton]] – ''Poems''
''See also [[1748 in poetry]]''

==Births==
*[[January 1]] – [[Gottfried August Bürger]], German poet (died [[1794 in literature|1794]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Alfred Little|title=Gottfried August Bürger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ITYbAAAAYAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-2185-0|page=13}}</ref>
*[[February 15]] – [[Jeremy Bentham]], English philosopher (died [[1832 in literature|1832]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anom|title=Historical Dictionary of the British Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-X-XYB_ZkIC&pg=PA129|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29366-5|pages=129}}</ref>
*[[April 27]] – [[Pierre-Louis Ginguené]], French author (died [[1815 in literature|1815]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Hugh Chisholm|author2=James Louis Garvin|title=The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nuezwLN7O0QC|year=1926|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|page=28}}</ref>
*[[May 7]] – [[Olympe de Gouges]], French dramatist (died [[1793 in literature|1793]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Lorrayne Y. Baird-Lange|author2=Thomas A. Copeland|title=Women in History, Literature, and the Arts: A Festschrift for Hildegard Schnuttgen in Honor of Her Thirty Years of Outstanding Service at Youngstown State University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gA0pAAAAYAAJ|year=1989|publisher=The University|isbn=978-0-9623146-1-2|page=22}}</ref>
*[[November 1]] – [[Francesco Galeani Napione]], Italian historian (died [[1830 in literature|1830]])
*[[November 8]] – [[Anne Seymour Damer]], English sculptor and novelist (died [[1828 in literature|1828]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Seymour Damer 1748–1828 {{!}} Tate |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/anne-seymour-damer-2553 |website=Tate |accessdate=21 August 2018}}</ref>
*[[December 14]] – [[Louis-François de Bausset]], French cardinal, writer, and academician (died [[1824 in literature|1824]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Chidambaran S. dewan bahadur Srinivasachari|title=Ananda Ranga Pillai, the 'Pepys' of French India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IFgnxYGdsTsC|year=1940|publisher=P. Varadachary|page=450}}</ref>
*''unknown date'' – [[Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński]], Polish politician, writer, and researcher (died [[1829 in literature|1829]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Applied Mechanics Reviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEsnAQAAMAAJ&pg=SL10-PA1063-IA9|year=1996|publisher=American Society of Mechanical Engineers|pages=10}}</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[March 11]] – [[Charles Johnson (writer)|Charles Johnson]], English dramatist and publican (born [[1679 in literature|1679]])
*[[April 3]] – [[Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui]], Swiss political theorist and man of letters (born [[1694 in literature|1694]])
*[[April 13]] – [[Christopher Pitt]], English poet and translator (born [[1699 in literature|1699]])
*[[August 27]] – [[James Thomson (poet, born 1700)|James Thomson]], Scottish-born poet (born [[1700 in literature|1700]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Trevor Royle|title=Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDJdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA300|date=11 November 1984|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-07587-4|pages=300}}</ref>
*[[September 21]] – [[John Balguy]], English philosopher (born [[1686 in literature|1686]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Hurd|title=The Early Letters of Bishop Richard Hurd, 1739-1762|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zTNQLZxFIKgC&pg=PR20|year=1995|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-0-85115-653-8|pages=20}}</ref>
*[[November 25]] – [[Isaac Watts]], English hymnist, theologian, and logician (born [[1674 in literature|1674]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Isaac Watts|title=The Beauties of the Late Revd. Dr. Isaac Watts; ... To which is Added the Life of the Author|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vCS6CIbOpEC&pg=PR12|year=1782|publisher=G. Kearsley|pages=12}}</ref>

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