The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living by Pinch, Adela
The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living by Pinch, Adela

The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living

We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how...
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Author: Adela Pinch
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Language: English
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The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living by Pinch, Adela

The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living

$131.14
The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living by Pinch, Adela

The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living

$131.14
Author: Adela Pinch
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside?

The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels create experience for us not by bringing reality up close, but by engineering environments in which we feel constrained from acting. By excavating the history of the rise of experience as an important category of Victorian intellectual life, this book reveals how experience was surprisingly tied to emotions of remorse and regret for some of the era's great women novelists: the Bront?s, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, and Elizabeth Gaskell. It shows how these writers passed ideas about experience--and experiences themselves--among each other.

Drawing on intellectual history, psychology, and moral philosophy, The Location of Experience shows that, through manipulating the psychological dimensions of fiction's formal features, Victorian women novelists produced a philosophical account of experience that rivaled and complemented that of the male philosophers of the period.

Author: Adela Pinch
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 10/15/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781531508616

About the Author
Adela Pinch is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen (1996), and Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing (2010).
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