Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

Patricia Meyer Spacks is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of eleven previous books, including "Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels" and "Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind," both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Patricia Meyer Spacks is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of eleven previous books, including "Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels" and "Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind," both published by the University of Chicago Press. See less