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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1722. ==Events== * 27 January - Daniel Defoe's novel ''Moll Flanders'' is published anonymously in London under its full title :''The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums.'' * March - Defoe's ''A Journal of the Plague Year'' is published under the initials H.F., purporting to be an eyewitness account of the Great Plague of London in 1665. * August 24 - Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, is arrested in his deanery and confined in the Tower of London, accused of leading the Jacobite "Atterbury Plot" in support of the pretender to the British throne James Francis Edward Stuart of the House of Stuart.〔 〕 * September–October - Voltaire and Jean-Baptiste Rousseau meet and quarrel at Brussels. * September 23 - Lille Grønnegade Theatre opens in Copenhagen, the first Danish-language theatre open to the public. The troupe comprises immigrant French actors who previously worked in the Danish royal theatre, with Ludvig Holberg as house dramatist. The comedies he writes for them this year include ''Jean de France''. * November 7 - Sir Richard Steele's "sentimental comedy" ''The Conscious Lovers'' (loosely based on Terence) opens at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London with an initial run of eighteen consecutive nights. * December - Defoe's picaresque novel ''Colonel Jack'', sharing many plot elements with ''Moll Flanders'', is published. * Construction of a new building for the ''Hof-Bibliothek'' ("Imperial Library") in Vienna, the modern-day Austrian National Library, begins. * Ten-year-old Jean-Jacques Rousseau is abandoned by his father, Isaac. * Edmund Bolton's ''Hypercritica'' is published, a century after it was written. * Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi's ''Zafar Nama'' ("History of Timur", 1425) is published in a French translation by François Pétis de la Croix (d. 1713). * First known Caslon serif typeface designed by William Caslon in England. * William Wood (ironmaster) commences the minting (in London) of copper halfpence and farthings under patent for circulation in Ireland which will be the subject of the first of Jonathan Swift's ''Drapier's Letters''.〔''A Letter To the Shop-Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, Concerning the Brass Half-Pence Coined by Mr. Woods'' (1724). 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1722 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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