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According to Wikipedia, Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks 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. "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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Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind (1995) (183)
The Female Imagination (2022) (157)
Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels (1990) (97)
Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England. (1977) (90)
Words and Women: New Language in New Times (1976) (84)
In Praise of Gossip (1982) (70)
The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (1996) (58)
The Adolescent Idea: Myths of Youth and the Adult Imagination (1981) (58)
Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self (2003) (46)
"Ev'ry Woman is at Heart a Rake" (1974) (34)
Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2006) (33)
The poetry of sensibility (2001) (28)
Autobiographical Acts: The Changing Situation of a Literary Genre. (1978) (27)
Selections from The female spectator (1999) (22)
The female imagination : a literary and psychological investigation of women's writing (1976) (21)
The Subtle Sophistry of Desire: Dr. Johnson and "The Female Quixote" (1988) (19)
On Rereading (2013) (16)
The Soul's Imaginings: Daniel Defoe, William Cowper (1976) (16)
Advocacy in the classroom : problems and possibilities (1997) (14)
The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800 (review) (2011) (14)
His and Hers: Essays in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (1986) (13)
Poetry of the Landscape and the Night: Two Eighteenth-Century Traditions@@@The Honest Muse: A Study in Augustan Verse@@@The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-Century Poets (1969) (13)
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark@@@A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1979) (13)
Muted Discord: Generational Conflict in Jane Austen (1981) (12)
Visits to Bedlam. Madness and literature in the eighteenth century (1976) (12)
The Insistence of Horror: Aspects of the Supernatural in Eighteenth Century Poetry (1962) (11)
Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry (1964) (10)
Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, and: The True Story of the Novel (review) (2011) (10)
The Novel of Development (2006) (9)
Oscillations of Sensibility (1994) (9)
Women's Stories, Women's Selves (1977) (9)
Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century Novels (1993) (8)
The Making of the Playboy (1961) (8)
An Argument of Images: The Poetry of Alexander Pope (1971) (7)
Honor and Perception in A Woman Killed with Kindness (1959) (7)
Contemporary women novelists : a collection of critical essays (1977) (6)
The Eighteenth-Century Collins (1983) (6)
Reflecting on the humanities (2009) (6)
The Dangerous Age (1978) (6)
The varied god : a critical study of Thomson's The seasons (1961) (5)
The World of Hedda Gabler (1962) (5)
Confrontation and Escape in Two Social Dramas (1968) (5)
Austen's laughter (1988) (4)
:The Cultural Work of Empire: The Seven Years War and the Imagining of the Shandean State (2008) (4)
Them or Us (1982) (4)
The Privacy of the Novel (1998) (4)
Energies of Mind: Plot's Possibilities in the 1790s (2011) (4)
Splendid falsehoods: English accounts of Rome, 1760–1798 (1980) (3)
Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition (2017) (3)
Empowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812 (review) (2011) (3)
Revolution in the humanities (2006) (3)
Taking Care: Some Women Novelists (1972) (2)
Fictions of Passion: The Case of Pope (2010) (2)
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780: Personal letters (2005) (2)
Pope and the context of controversy : the manipulation of ideas in An essay on man (1971) (2)
FEMALE CHANGELESSNESS; OR, WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? (2016) (2)
The "I" Speaks@@@Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England@@@Autobiographical Acts: The Changing Situation of a Literary Genre (1979) (2)
The Boswellian Hero. (1981) (2)
Sex and Sensibility: Ideal and Erotic Love from Milton to Mozart. (1982) (2)
Scandal and Privacy: Two Eighteenth-Century Women (2002) (2)
Privacy, Dissimulation, and Propriety: Frances Burney and Jane Austen (2011) (2)
Early Fiction and the Frightened Male (1974) (1)
The Power of Middlemarch (2014) (1)
A Revisionary Company@@@The Female Imagination (1977) (1)
Eighteenth-century poetry (1964) (1)
The Novel of Sentiment (2006) (1)
Dealing with Difference: Being an Administrator in the 1990s. (1994) (1)
"Artful Strife": Conflict in Gray's Poetry (1966) (1)
A distant prospect : eighteenth-century views of childhood : papers read at a Clark Library seminar, 13 October, 1979 (1986) (1)
A Chronicle of Women (1972) (1)
Exposures: Sex, Privacy, and Sensibility (2003) (1)
Us or Them (1978) (1)
John Gay: A Satirist's Progress (1964) (1)
Acts of Enclosure (1977) (1)
The Profession We Serve. (1997) (1)
Privacies of Reading (2003) (1)
Vision and Meaning in James Thomson (1965) (1)
Legends of Smart Women (1989) (0)
On Departmental Self-Interest. (1996) (0)
6. Other Times: The 1970s (2011) (0)
Stupidity (review) (2003) (0)
Sally Holloway. The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture. Emotions in History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 256. $74.00 (cloth). (2020) (0)
William Collins and Eighteenth-Century English Poetry (1982) (0)
Novels of Adventure (2006) (0)
Novels of Consciousness (2006) (0)
Coda: What I Have Learned (2011) (0)
Presidential Address 1994: Reality—Our Subject and Discipline (1995) (0)
II. JAMES THOMSON: The Dominance of Meaning (1967) (0)
Tristram Shandy and the Development of the Novel (2006) (0)
Necessities of Memory (1978) (0)
Our Man in Twit'nam (1975) (0)
Persuasion : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism (2013) (0)
The Performance of Sensibility (2003) (0)
Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography (review) (2011) (0)
III. JAMES THOMSON: The Retreat from Vision (1967) (0)
8. Professional Rereading (2011) (0)
I. VISION AND MEANING: An Introduction to the Problem (1967) (0)
Emma's Happiness. (1986) (0)
CHAPTER 6. Personification, 1751-1800 (1962) (0)
V. THOMAS GRAY: Action and Image (1967) (0)
The Novel of Manners (2006) (0)
The poetry of vision (1967) (0)
Three. Word and Vision: Donne's Anniversarie Poems and An Essay on Man (1971) (0)
The Art of Life (1976) (0)
: Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts. . Nina Auerbach. (1987) (0)
5. Other Times: The 1960s (2011) (0)
The Political Novel (2006) (0)
IX. THE ACHIEVED IMAGE (1967) (0)
The poetry of vision (1967) (0)
Editor's Note (2010) (0)
One. The Controlling Image (1971) (0)
Contributors (2003) (0)
IV. WILLIAM COLLINS: The Controlling Image (1967) (0)
Four. Worlds of Unreason: The Dunciad and The Waste Land (1971) (0)
1. Always a Stranger (2011) (0)
Special Student, Special Section (1959) (0)
Six. Freedom Through Bounds (1971) (0)
Preromanticism (review) (2011) (0)
Book Review: Women's Lives and the Eighteenth-Century English NovelWomen's Lives and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel. By BrophyElizabeth Bergen. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1991. ISBN 0-8130-1036-5. Pp. x + 291. $29.95. (1991) (0)
Steps to Reading Literature I (1964) (0)
Imagery and Method in An Essay on Criticism (1970) (0)
The Reality of Literary Studies – Reply (1996) (0)
3. A Civilized World (2011) (0)
Five. Forms of the Human and Superhuman (1971) (0)
21. Thomas’ in My Craft or Sullen Art, 6-9 (1959) (0)
Seductions: Studies in Reading and Culture * Telling Tales: The Hysteric's Seduction in Fiction and Theory (1991) (0)
: Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. . Margaret Anne Doody. (1989) (0)
Recent books of interest (1994) (0)
CHAPTER 3. Supernatural Horror 1741-1780 (1962) (0)
The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain (review) (2006) (0)
Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (review) (2010) (0)
7. The Pleasure Principle (2011) (0)
10. Guilty Pleasures (2011) (0)
Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (review) (2002) (0)
Response Essay How We See: The 1790s (2016) (0)
CHAPTER 5. Personification, 1700-1750 (1962) (0)
1 Identity in Fiction and in Fact (1976) (0)
Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England by John Sitter (1983) (0)
Book Review:The Holy and the Daemonic from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake R. D. Stock (1984) (0)
VIII. WILLIAM COWPER: The Heightened Perception (1967) (0)
A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 (2008) (0)
Privacy as Enablement (2003) (0)
9. Books I Ought to Like (2011) (0)
1994: Reality-Our Subject and Discipline (2000) (0)
Statement and Artifice in Thomas Gray (1965) (0)
Prognostications: Concluding Remarks to the November MLA-FIPSE English Programs Curriculum Review Conference. (1993) (0)
Novel Beginnings (2017) (0)
The Tested Woman Plot: Women's Choices, Men's Judgments, and the Shaping of Stories (review) (2002) (0)
10 Selfhood, Given and Formed (1976) (0)
Book Review:The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (Formerly Mrs. Thrale). Vol. 1: 1784-1791 Edward A. Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom, Hester Lynch Piozzi (1990) (0)
CHAPTER 1. Supernatural Horror: The Atmosphere of Belief (1962) (0)
Private conversation, public meaning (1998) (0)
English in America: A Commentary on Ohmann (1978) (0)
Emma: The National Humanites Center 2003 Seminar: Introduction (2003) (0)
THE ART OF THE ENEMY (1957) (0)
Afterword What Came Next (2006) (0)
Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust (review) (2004) (0)
CHAPTER 4. Supernatural Horror 1781 - 1800 (1962) (0)
Review of: Lois E. Bueler, The Tested Woman Plot: Women's Choices, Men's Judgments, and the Shaping of Stories (2002) (0)
CHAPTER 7. Conclusions (1962) (0)
Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (review) (2011) (0)
The Excitement of Beginnings (2006) (0)
The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650 1950 (2011) (0)
In Search of Sincerity (1968) (0)
Chapter-11 Writing Differences in Male / Female Autobiographies : A Theoretical Perspective (2015) (0)
Scribleriana (2017) (0)
Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1964) (0)
Imaginations Warm and Tender: Pope and Lady Mary (1984) (0)
Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen. Mona ScheurmannEnds of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Laura Brown (1996) (0)
Ethical Pattern in The Lord of the Rings (1959) (0)
Vive la difference (1975) (0)
Two Wit Governing Wit: An Essay on Criticism (1971) (0)
Too Good to Miss (1985) (0)
Eighteenth-Century Poetry the Teacher's Dilemma (1962) (0)
Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters. Mary A. Favret. (1994) (0)
Contributors (2011) (0)
Seven. To Madness Near Ally'd (1971) (0)
Carol Watts. The Cultural Work of Empire: The Seven Years’ War and the Imagining of the Shandean State. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. 335. $65.00 (cloth). (2008) (0)
VII. CHRISTOPHER SMART: The Mystique of Vision (II) (1967) (0)
CHAPTER 2. Supernatural Horror in Poetry 1700-1740 (1962) (0)
Book Review:The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1680-1760 Toni Bowers (1999) (0)
A Dull Book is Easily Renounced (1994) (0)
Jenny Davidson. Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century . New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 292. $32.50 (cloth). (2010) (0)
Book Review:"The Castle of Indolence" and Other Poems James Thomson, Alan Dugald McKillop (1963) (0)
INTRODUCTION. Witches, Ghosts, Critics, and Poets (1962) (0)
4. Other Times: The 1950s (2011) (0)
The Wages of Sin: Adolescent Mothers in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1984) (0)
2. Once Upon a Time (2011) (0)
3 Female Identities (1976) (0)
IMAGE AND ACTION Critics of the Academy (1993) (0)
The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. Volume V: West Humble and Paris 1801-1803@@@The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. Volume VI: France 1803-1812 (1978) (0)
Privacy, Dissimulation, and Propriety (2003) (0)
11. Reading Together (2011) (0)

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