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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1886. ==Events== * January - ''MLN: Modern Language Notes'', an academic journal established with the intention of introducing European literary criticism into American scholarship, is founded at Johns Hopkins University. * January 5 & 9 - Robert Louis Stevenson's horror novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is first published in New York and London respectively; within the first six months, close to 40,000 copies are sold. * January 17 - The Anglo-Irish writers cousins Somerville and Ross first meet, at Castletownshend. * February 22 - First performance of William Gillette's American Civil War drama ''Held by the Enemy'', at the Criterion Theatre, Brooklyn (New York). * May–July - Robert Louis Stevenson's Scottish historical novel ''Kidnapped'' is serialized in the London magazine ''Young Folks''. * May 7 - First performance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's verse drama ''The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts'' (written and printed in Italy, 1819) in England, a private production sponsored by the Shelley Society at the Grand Theatre, Islington, London, before an audience that includes Robert Browning (for whose birthday it is performed), George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde.〔Oscar Wilde's review of the performance in ''Dramatic Review'' (May 15, 1886) in ("Reviews". )〕 * September 9 - Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works signed. * September 18 - The "Symbolist Manifesto" (''Le Symbolisme'') is published in French newspaper ''Le Figaro'' by Greek-born poet Jean Moréas, who announces that Symbolism is hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description," and that its goal instead is to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal". * Fall - Clifford Barnes is taken on as a bookstore clerk with Arthur Hinds & Co. in Manhattan, which will become Barnes & Noble. * November - Rudyard Kipling's ''Plain Tales from the Hills'' begin publication in the Lahore ''Civil and Military Gazette'' under the British Raj. * December 10 - Emily Dickinson dies aged 55 of Bright's disease at the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts with fewer than a dozen of her 1,800 poems published and is buried under the self-penned epitaph "Called Back". She will later be regarded (with Walt Whitman) as one of the two quintessential nineteenth-century American poets. * A Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's play ''Hamlet'' as ''Hamuretto Yamato Nishiki-e'' is serialized in the newspaper ''Tokyo Eiri Shimbun''. 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「1886 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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