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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1774. ==Events== * February 22 - The English legal case of ''Donaldson v Beckett'' is decided in the House of Lords, denying the continued existence of a perpetual common law copyright and holding that copyright is a creation of statute and can be limited in its duration.〔2 Brown's Parl. Cases 129, 1 Eng. Rep. 837; 4 Burr. 2408, 98 Eng. Rep. 257; 17 Cobbett's Parl. Hist. 953 (1813).〕 This permits authors to claim copyright in their own works. * September 29 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's semi-autobiographical epistolary novel ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' (''Die Leiden des jungen Werthers'') (written January–March) is published anonymously in Leipzig, Germany; it is influential in the ''Sturm und Drang'' movement and Romanticism. * Following destruction of the Schloss Weimar by fire, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, forms a commission for its reconstruction directed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. * James Lackington begins in the London bookselling business. * Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider becomes secretary to Richard François Philippe Brunck. 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「1774 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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