1832 in literature

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The year 1832 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• The Houghton Mifflin publishing house founded in Boston, Massachusetts
• Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes Faust
• Washington Irving returns to the United States, after living abroad for seventeen years.
• Tait's Edinburgh Magazine begins publication.

New books

• Nathaniel Ames - Nautical Reminiscences
• Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - Eugene Aram
• Selina Davenport - The Unchanged
• Benjamin Disraeli - Contarini Fleming
• Catherine Gore
  • The Fair of Mayfair
  • The Opera
• Robert Huish - Fitzallan
• Washington Irving - Tales of the Alhambra
• Frederick Marryat - Newton Forster
• Alexander Pushkin - Dubrovsky
• Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -Volupte
• George Sand - Valentine
• Sir Walter Scott
  • Castle Dangerous
  • Count Robert of Paris
• Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - Combination
• Rosalia St. Clair - The Doomed One

New drama

• Casimir Delavigne - Louis XI
• Victor Hugo - Le roi s'amuse

Poetry

• James Henry Leigh Hunt - Poetical Works
• Aleksandr Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
• Alfred Tennyson - The Lady of Shalott

Non-fiction

• John Austin -The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
• Carl von Clausewitz - On War (Vom Kriege) (published posthumously)
• Lord Mahon - History of the War of Succession in Spain

Births

• January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr., writer (+ 1899)
• January 27 - Lewis Carroll, author (+ 1898)
• June 10 - Sir Edwin Arnold, poet (+ 1904)
• June 11 – Jules Vallés, writer (+ 1885)
• November 29 - Louisa May Alcott, author (+ 1888)
• December 8 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Nobel Prize-winning novelist (+ 1910)
• Hesba Stretton, English children's author (+ 1911)

Deaths

• February 3 - George Crabbe, poet
• March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and poet
• September 21 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
• November 14 - Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish philologist
• December 18 - Philip Morin Freneau, poet

Awards