Patricia Meyer Spacks

Biographic Data

ID387097
NAMEPatricia Meyer Spacks
GIVEN NAMESPatricia Meyer
FAMILY NAMESpacks
SIGNATURESPACKS P M
AFFILIATIONSYale University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • The Female Imagination: A Literary and Psychological Investigation of Women's Writing

    Patricia Meyer SpacksBOOKFemale Imagination2022

    Is there such a thing as a female literary imagination – a special brand of insight and intuition that characterises women’s writing? Is there something about a novel, whether by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë or Doris Lessing, that tells us that it could only have been written by a woman? Do the subject matter, form and style that women choose throw light on the way they think and feel? In this brilliant and highly readable book, originally publi…

  • The Power of Middlemarch

    Patricia Meyer SpacksARTICLEDaedalus2014Cited by: 1

    PATRICIAMEYER SPACKS, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1994, is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Virginia. Her recent books include On Rereading (2011), Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry (2009), and Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2006). She has also recently prepared annotated editions of the Jane Austen novels Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Doroth…

  • On Rereading

    Patricia Meyer SpacksBOOKOn Rereading2011

  • Reflecting on the humanities

    Open AccessPatricia Meyer Spacks, Leslie BerlowitzARTICLEDaedalus2009Cited by: 2

  • Revolution in the humanities

    Open AccessPatricia Meyer SpacksARTICLEDaedalus2006

  • A Dull Book is Easily Renounced”

    Patricia Meyer SpacksARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture1994

  • Oscillations of Sensibility

    Patricia Meyer SpacksARTICLENew Literary History1994

    IGHTEENTH-CENTURY VERSIONS of sensibility provide few obvious attractions for the postmodern consciousness. Novel after novel, play after play, the early literature of sensibility rehearses its register of human misery, without consistent irony, without appropriate rage. In their sheer relentlessness, the bizarre multiplications of misfortune frequently verge on inadvertent comedy. Equally appalling to twentieth-century feelings are the remedies …

  • Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century Novels

    Mary Anne Schofield, Patricia Meyer Spacks et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1993

  • Image and Action: Critics of the Academy

    Patricia Meyer SpacksARTICLECallaloo1993

    The current discourses of cultural politics, inasmuch as they bear on the academy, concern themselves less with practices than with images. The teacher as lazy lout, to be put to work; as aristocrat, to be brought down a peg or two; as servant, to be directed toward fulfilling the master's ends; as bad priest who has failed to lead the flock to virtue. The teacher as showman, endlessly parading his brilliance or her radical politics, and as shama…

  • The Courtship Novel, 1740-1820: A Feminized Genre

    Patricia Meyer Spacks, Katherine Sobba GreenARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1992

    The period from her first London assembly to her wedding day was the narrow span of autonomy for a middle-class Englishwoman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many women, as Katherine Sobba Green shows, the new ideal of companionate marriage involved such thoroughgoing revisions in self-perception that a new literary form was needed to represent their altered roles. That the choice among suitors ideally depended on love and sh…

  • Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists

    Patricia Meyer Spacks, Susan J Leonardi et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Higher Education1991Cited by: 2

    Describes the experiences of women attending Oxford shortly before and after World War I and examines these experiences in the works of major novelists

  • Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century

    Open AccessPatricia Meyer SpacksREVIEWSouth Central Review1990

    Introduction. Sympathy and the production of society Richardson - sentiment and the construction of femininity the availability of virtue Laurence Sterne and sociality of the novel hypochondria and hysteria - sensibility and the physicians. Bibliography. Index

  • Women, Power, and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860 . Judith Lowder Newton The Determined Reader: Gender and Culture in the Novel from Napoleon to Victoria . Carla L. Peterso…

    Patricia Meyer SpacksARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…1988

  • Austen's laughter

    Patricia Meyer SpacksARTICLEWomen s Studies1988

    (1988). Austen's laughter. Women's Studies: Vol. 15, Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy, pp. 71-85

  • Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction

    Patricia Meyer Spacks, Terry CastleARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1987Cited by: 4

  • Pope's Imagination

    Patricia Meyer Spacks, David FairerARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1986

  • Gossip

    Jan Gordon, Patricia Meyer SpacksARTICLEModern Language Notes1986

  • Imaginations Warm and Tender: Pope and Lady Mary

    Patricia Meyer SpacksARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1984

    Research Article| April 01 1984 Imaginations Warm and Tender: Pope and Lady Mary Patricia Meyer Spacks Patricia Meyer Spacks Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1984) 83 (2): 207–215. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-83-2-207 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Patricia Meyer Spacks; Imaginations Warm and Tender: Pope and Lady Mary. Sout…

  • Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England by John Sitter

    Patricia Meyer SpacksARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1983

    Book Review| October 01 1983 Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England by John Sitter Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England. By Sitter, John. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. Pp. 230. $19.50. Patricia Meyer Spacks Patricia Meyer Spacks Yale University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1983) 82 (4): 452–455. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-82-4-452 Ci…

  • Sex and Sensibility: Ideal and Erotic Love from Milton to Mozart

    Patricia Meyer Spacks, Jean H HagstrumARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1982

  • The Boswellian Hero

    Patricia Meyer Spacks, William C DowlingARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1981

  • English Literature in the Age of Disguise

    Patricia Meyer Spacks, Maximillian E NovakARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1979

  • The Dangerous Age

    Patricia Meyer SpacksARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1978

    I ought now to think of concluding this Paper: But I know not how to give over. I am so much aware of the Inconstancy and Unsteddiness of the human Heart, the Frailty of the best Resolutions, and the most obstinate Virtue we can boast, the fatal Power of Temptation, the terrible Effects of bad Company, and the almost irresistible Force of Example, and withal, the Difficulty of attaining that high Pitch of Virtue necessary to qualify for the Enjoy…

  • Autobiographical Acts: The Changing Situation of a Literary Genre

    Patricia Meyer Spacks, Elizabeth W Bruss et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1978

  • Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England

    PAUL D McGLYNN, Patricia Meyer SpacksARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1977