Spacks, Patricia Meyer

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Name (Latin)
Spacks, Patricia Meyer
Other forms of name
Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer
Meyer, Patricia Ann
Date of birth
1929
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 111070707
Wikidata: Q65005904
Library of congress: n 80005768
Sources of Information
  • Her Adolescent idea, c1981:t.p. (Patricia Meyer Spacks) CIP data (prof. of Eng., Yale U.)
  • Her The varied god, 1959.
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1929)
  • Sense and sensibility, 2013:ECIP t.p. (Patricia Meyer Spacks)
  • LCN; note: 1929-

Wikipedia description:

Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (born November 17, 1929) is an American literary scholar. She is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia and former president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Modern Language Association. She specializes in eighteenth-century English literature and also writes cultural criticism on varied subjects such as boredom, gossip, and feminism. According to the scholar Eileen Gillooly, "With remarkable breadth of reference, Spacks has written more extensively than any other feminist critic on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English narrative."

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