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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1800. ==Events== *January – Maria Edgeworth's first extended work of fiction, ''Castle Rackrent'' ("an Hiberian Tale: Taken from Facts, and from the Manners of the Irish Squires, Before the Year 1782"), is published anonymously in London, variously regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel, the first saga novel and the first with an unreliable narrator.〔Kirkpatrick, Kathryn J. (1995). "Introduction to ''Castle Rackrent''". Oxford University Press.〕 *January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore (now part of West Bengal) India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward. The press will grow into the largest in Asia, printing books in nearly every Indian language.〔Das, Sisir Kumar (2006). "A Chronology of Literary Events, 1800–1910". In ''A History of Indian Literature: Western Impact, Indian Response, 1800–1910''. Sahitya Akademi, 2006. Retrieved via Google Books, July 16, 2009.〕 *March – English "ploughboy poet" Robert Bloomfield's ''The Farmer's Boy'' is published with engravings by Thomas Bewick, selling over 25,000 copies in the next two years, with 15 editions by 1827 and a number of translations.〔 〕 *April 24 – The United States establishes the Library of Congress. *June 14 – Friedrich Schiller's historical drama ''Mary Stuart'' has its première in Weimar. *October 3 – William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking near Grasmere in the English Lake District, encounter a leech gatherer who inspires his poem "Resolution and Independence", first written 18 months later. *William Blake begins 3 years residence in a cottage at Felpham in Sussex to illustrate the works of William Hayley; here he begins work on his poem ''Milton''. 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「1800 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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