Patricia Meyer Spacks

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  Final selections were made by a panel of distinguished scholars chaired by Patricia Meyer Spacks, the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

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  Patricia Meyer Spacks, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., D.H.L., Professor Emeritus of English

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  "It gives me great pleasure to welcome these outstanding leaders in their fields to the Academy," said Academy President Patricia Meyer Spacks.

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  In "Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind" (University of Chicago Press, 1995), Patricia Meyer Spacks, an English professor at the University of Virginia, traces its legacy as a literary theme from Samuel Johnson to present-day writers like Saul Bellow:

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  Reviewed by Patricia Meyer Spacks.
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  Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar Shannon Professor of English Emerita at the University of Virginia, is currently teaching a Harvard freshman seminar called "Rereading Jane Austen."Her most recent book is Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction.
  
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  Published on: 6/6/2005    Last Visited: 11/10/2006  

  Professor Patricia Meyer Spacks in her valuable study Gossip (University of Chicago Press, 1985) reels off a doleful litany of denunciation and distrust beginning in the Middle Ages and rising to a 20th century climax with such epithets being hurled at Gossip as "surreptitious aggression" (Samuel Heilman), "murder by language," (Roland Barthes), and "unconscious wish for father-murder" (Jean B. Rosenbaum and Meyer Subrin in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol.
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  As an example of the former, Professor Spacks cites a delightful passage from a letter dashed off by Lady Mary Pierrepont (later to become famous as Lady Mary Wortley Montague, the pioneer of inoculation for smallpox) in the early 18th century:
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  Professor Spacks compares this, with all its sparkle, precision of tone, precision of insight, its sheer joy of watching the world and rattling on about it, with some prurient little items culled from People magazine ("Caroline Reed, 18, finds her uncle Oliver surprisingly agile in a pas de deux").She notes, reasonably enough if ponderously, that gossip like Lady Mary's offers us "reassurance not only about the stability of a continuous self but about the possibility of intimacy, of fruitful human exchange," while "People purveys the same reassurance in debased form, inviting its readers into a brief, unstable alliance . . .a one-night stand rather than an extended relationship."
  
  In more sober language, what this says is that Lady Mary was a sharp observer and a good writer. and she gives us genuine and lasting pleasure by introducing us to some one like Mrs. Bridge whom we would never have heard of otherwise.And she reveals a good deal about her own lively little mind in the process.While in a month or a year, who will give a tinker's damn about the worthies cavorting through this week's People Magazine or the reporter who dissected their mediocre sins?
  
  This is hardly cause for legislating gossip magazines out of existence as some good souls would have us do.There will always be bad writers as well as good writers, and the lives of most of us will always navigate unpredictably between extended relationships and one-night stands.Both Lady Mary and the editors of People share the eternal gossipy interest in the workings of sex and money in human life, and in this sense they, and Professor Spacks, are sisters under their skins.
  
  So it is perhaps time to show a modicum of charity toward Dame Gossip and at least attenuate some of the charges which we are all too eager to throw at her when she gets on our trail.

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  Patricia M. Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, served as president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, while Anne Beattie, Edgar Allen Poe Professor of Creative Writing, and William B. Quandt, Edward R. Stettinius Professor of Politics, joined approximately 28 other UVa faculty as members of this international society.

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  Patricia Meyer Spacks, President of the Academy, 2001-2006, and

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  "It gives me great pleasure to welcome these outstanding leaders in their fields to the academy," said Academy President Patricia Meyer Spacks.

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  Published on: 7/30/2007    Last Visited: 12/4/2007  

  That's what the Academy of the Arts and Sciences' director Patricia Spacks suggested during a speech" back in 2000 before that august body:

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