The Location of Experience – Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feelin…
The Location of ExperienceVictorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living\nAuthor(s): Adela Pinch\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531508609, 978-1531508609\nSynopsis\nWe 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? \n 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 Bronts, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, and Elizabeth Gaskell. It shows how these writers passed ideas about experienceand.
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