Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose

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Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose is a collection of essays and prose writings by Anna Laetitia Barbauld that showcases her literary criticism, moral reflection, and engagement with Enlightenment ideas.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf essay collection
prose collection
associatedWith Unitarianism
rational dissenters
author Anna Laetitia Barbauld
coAuthor John Aikin
contains essays
literary criticism essays
moral reflections
contributedTo development of Gothic aesthetics through analysis of terror
reputation of Anna Laetitia Barbauld as a critic
countryOfOrigin Great Britain
firstPublicationYear 1773
genre Enlightenment literature
essays
literary criticism
moral essays
hasForm prose
hasFormat octavo
hasReception well received among contemporary dissenting intellectuals
hasSubject aesthetics
education and pedagogy
ethics
literary theory
influencedBy Empiricism
surface form: British empiricism

Enlightenment thought
moral sense philosophy
isEarlyWorkOf Anna Laetitia Barbauld
language English
literaryMovement Age of Enlightenment
surface form: Enlightenment

rational dissent
notableEssay On Romances
On the Pleasures Derived from Objects of Terror
surface form: On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror

On the Pleasures Derived from Objects of Terror
publicationCentury 18th century
publisher J. Johnson
relatedWork Poems (1773) by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
settingOfProduction England
targetAudience Enlightenment intellectuals
educated reading public
thematicFocus Enlightenment rationalism
education
literary judgment
moral philosophy
religious dissent
social criticism
taste and aesthetics

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Anna Laetitia Barbauld notableWork Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose
Anna Laetitia Aikin notableWork Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose
this entity surface form: Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose (1773)