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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1839. ==Events== *January 21 - Åbo Svenska Teater in Åbo (Turku), Finland, opens with a performance of ''Gubben i Bergsbygden''. *May 31 - Important British constitutional case of ''Stockdale v Hansard'' is launched when publisher John Joseph Stockdale sues for libel after John Roberton's pseudo-medical work ''On Diseases of the Generative System'' (1811) is declared in a parliamentary report to be indecent. *Washington Irving begins contributing regularly to ''The Knickerbocker'', and will publish thirty new pieces in the magazine — including "The Creole Village," in which he will coin the phrase "the almighty dollar" — through March 1841. *Mikhail Lermontov publishes the first two parts of ''A Hero of Our Time'' (Герой нашего времени, ''Geroy nashevo vremeni'') in ''Otechestvennye Zapiski''. The novel comes to be considered a pioneering classic of Russian psychological realism. *''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'', a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance by the 'Pearl Poet', is first published complete, in ''Syr Gawayne: a collection of ancient romance-poems by Scottish and English authors relating to that celebrated knight of the Round Table'' edited by Frederic Madden for the Bannatyne Club. *George Bell establishes the London publisher George Bell & Sons as an educational bookseller in Bouverie Street. *W. Harrison Ainsworth takes over editorship of ''Bentley's Miscellany'' from Charles Dickens at the end of the year. Until April serializations of their respective novels ''Jack Sheppard'' and ''Oliver Twist'' have been running simultaneously in the magazine. 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「1839 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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