1682 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1682. Events In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company of actors. In Paris, the Bibliothèque Mazarine reopens at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. In Japan, Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男, Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko, "The Man Who Spent His Life in Love") inaugurates what becomes known as ukiyo-zōshi ("books of the floating world"), the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction. New books Prose John Bunyan – The Holy War Francisco Nunez de Cepeda – Idea del buen pastor representada en Empresas sacras William Penn Frame of Government of Pennsylvania Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims Mary Rowlandson – A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴) – The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男 Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko) Bulstrode Whitelocke – Memorials of the English Affairs from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I (Puritan viewpoint)