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      The Female Imagination

      Patricia Meyer Spacks

      In this book, first published in 1976, the author analyses the female view of the world. Juxtaposing - sometimes in startlingly original combination some 80 books written between the 17th…

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

      Patricia Meyer Spacks

      In this book, first published in 1976, the author analyses the female view of the world. Juxtaposing - sometimes in startlingly original combination some 80 books written between the 17th…

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      On Rereading

      Patricia Meyer Spacks

      After retiring from teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, young adult fiction, canonical works she didn’t like, guilty pleasures…

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      Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth Century English Novels

      Patricia Meyer Spacks

      Desire and Truth offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional categories of passion and rationality. Arguing that fiction creates…

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      Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind

      Patricia Meyer Spacks

      An explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last…

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      Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind

      Patricia Meyer Spacks

      This text, using examples ranging from Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to Donald Barthelme and Anita Brookner, examines the influence that the concept of boredom exerts on the literary imagination.

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      Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

      Patricia Meyer Spacks

      Investigating fiction throughout the 1700s, the author delineates the individuality of specific texts while also suggesting connections among novels. She sketches a range of forms and themes, including Providential narrative…

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      Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry

      Patricia Meyer Spacks

      Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry.

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      Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry

      Patricia Meyer Spacks

      Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry.

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      An Argument of Images

      Patricia Meyer Spacks (University of Virginia)

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      Imagining a Self

      Patricia Meyer Spacks (University of Virginia)

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      The Insistence of Horror

      Patricia Meyer Spacks (University of Virginia)

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      The Poetry of Vision

      Patricia Meyer Spacks (University of Virginia)

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      Selections from The Female Spectator

      Eliza Haywood

      In the 1740s and 50s Eliza Haywood, novelist, edited several serial newspapers, including The Female Spectator , which was written with a markedly female audience in mind. This text contains…

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      Selections from The Female Spectator

      Eliza Haywood

      In the 1740s and 50s Eliza Haywood, novelist, edited several serial newspapers, including The Female Spectator , which was written with a markedly female audience in mind. This text contains…

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      Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition

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      Patricia Meyer Spacks guides readers to a deeper appreciation of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood as they experience love, romance, and heartbreak. Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition includes numerous color…

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      Persuasion

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      Jane Austen s last complete novel is now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition. The volume emphasizes new trends in critical discourse, which have enormous importance for our understanding…

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      Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self

      Patricia Meyer Spacks (Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA)

      Exploring eighteenth century concerns about privacy, this examination of scrutiny and social pressure looks at diaries, autobiographies, poems and works of pornography in order to show the possibilities of privacy…

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