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Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (born 1929) is an American literary scholar. She specializes in eighteenth century English Literature and also writes cultural criticism on varied subjects such as boredom, gossip, and feminism.

Spacks, Patricia (Ann) Meyer

Spacks, Patricia (Ann) Meyer. Born 17 November 1929, San Francisco, California. In six books about 18th-century literature, Spacks writes with a vision that considers the writer and the genre in the social and cultural context of the period as well as the history of literary evolution and significance. Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (1976) is a comparative study between the two genres.

By (author) Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks. Explores the nature, morality, and aesthetics of gossip, examines gossip in history and the psychology of gossip, and analyzes gossip-as subject and literary technique-in plays, letters, biographies, and novels show more. Format Hardback 287 pages. Close X. Learn about new offers and get more deals by joining our newsletter.

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Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks. The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1985). Gossip, Alfred a Knopf Inc. People, Secret, Thrill

Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks. The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives. People, Secret, Thrill. Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society. Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). The Female Imagination.

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Semantic Scholar profile for Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks, with fewer than 50 highly influential citations. 2. View via Publisher. Influential Citations6. Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind.

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