1841 in literature

The year 1841 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * Horace Greeley begins publication of the New York Tribune.
 * Punch magazine is founded in London.

New books

 * William Harrison Ainsworth - Old St. Paul's
 * Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda - Sab
 * Honoré de Balzac - A Shady Business
 * Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - Night and Morning
 * James Fenimore Cooper - The Deerslayer
 * Catherine Crowe - Susan Hopley
 * Charles Dickens
 * The Old Curiosity Shop
 * Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
 * Master Humphrey's Clock
 * Catherine Gore
 * Adventures of a Coxcomb
 * Season in Paris
 * Jeremias Gotthelf - Uli der Knecht
 * Washington Irving - Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson
 * Frederick Marryat
 * Joseph Rushbroo
 * Masterman Ready
 * Theodor Mundt - Thomas Münzer
 * Edgar Allan Poe - "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (short story)
 * Eugène Sue - Mathilde
 * Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
 * Conformity
 * Falsehood and Truth
 * Helen Fleetwood: Tales of the Factories

New drama

 * Dion Boucicault - London Assurance
 * Robert Browning - Pippa Passes
 * Mary Russell Mitford - Inez de Castro

Poetry

 * Alexander Pushkin - The Bronze Horseman
 * Mikhail Lermontov - The Demon: An Eastern Tale
 * James Russell Lowell - A Year's Life
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Excelsior

Non-fiction

 * Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays
 * Ludwig Feuerbach - Das Wesen des Christentums (The Essence of Christianity)
 * Washington Irving - Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson
 * Søren Kierkegaard - On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates

Births

 * February 28 - Jean Mounet-Sully, actor (d. 1904)
 * April 6 - Ivan Surikov, poet (d.1880)
 * May 22 - Catulle Mendès, poet (d. 1909)
 * June - Hermann Eduard von Holst, historian (d. 1904)
 * August 4 - William Henry Hudson, naturalist and author (d. 1922)
 * August 18 - Robert Williams Buchanan, author (d. 1901)
 * October 6 - Clement Scott, critic and travel writer (d. 1916)
 * November 8 - John Charles Dent, journalist and historian (d. 1888)
 * November 13 - William Black, novelist (d. 1898)

Deaths

 * April - James Browne, journalist and critic
 * May 7 - Thomas Barnes, editor of The Times
 * May 20 - Joseph Blanco White, poet and theologian
 * July 27 - Mikhail Lermontov, poet
 * August 11 - Johann Friedrich Herbart, philosopher
 * September 16 - Thomas John Dibdin, dramatist
 * October 31 - Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, philologist and philosopher
 * December 12 - Denis-Luc Frayssinous, theologian
 * Märta Helena Reenstierna, diarist