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Persuasion

Meet the Editor

Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English and department chair at the University of Virginia. She is the author of eleven books, including An Argument of Images: The Poetry of Alexander Pope, The Female Imagination, The Adolescent Idea: Myths of Youth in the Adult Imagination, Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels, and Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind. Professor Spacks is a contributing editor of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.