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Encyclopedia > 1686 in literature

See also: 1685 in literature, other events of 1686, 1687 in literature, list of years in literature.



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List of years in literature: Information From Answers.com (2781 words)
1950 in literature - The Bald Soprano - Eugène Ionesco; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
1923 in literature - Duino Elegies - Rainer Maria Rilke; Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
1921 in literature - The Mistress of Husaby - Sigrid Undset
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The history of juvenile literature is the story of a continual movement around these two purposes, with occasional periods of relative equilibrium between enjoyable and instructive fare.
Literature as a means to character building was a social and political imperative, and a hallmark of all extant Sumerian edubba tablets.
With the invention of moveable type and printing in the mid-fifteenth century, the access of all, including children, to literature, significantly increased, although published juvenile literature, as distinct from the general body of literature, did not exist as a separate entity before the second half of the eighteenth century.
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