John Ford's 1624 play The Sun's Darling is the first recorded mention of the related term "dunce table," a table provided for duller or poorer students; "dunce cap" appears first in the 1840 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens.
In his book On the Basis of Morality (1840), Arthur Schopenhauer presents a careful analysis of the Groundwork.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is an historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840.
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