Location of Experience

Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvAdela Pinch

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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 Brontës, 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.The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living is available from the Knowledge Unlatched on an open-access basis.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-15
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLit Z
Antal sidor224
FörlagFordham University Press
ISBN9781531508616

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Introduction 1Experience on the Move: Transitioning, Transferring,Containing, 3 • Narrative Relations, Novel Worlds,7 • The Organization of This Book, 10 • WomenWriters, Women Readers, Feminist Theory, 12 •Acknowledgments, 151 Transfers of Experience: Brontës, Gaskell, Meynell, Sinclair 18Introduction, 18 • Experience in Victorian Philosophy,22 • The Brontës and Experience, 29 • May Sinclair,33 • A Distributed-Brontë Theory of Experience, 37 •Images of Haworth, 40 • Coda: Little Brontës, 502 The Story of O: Margaret Oliphant and Anti-metalepsis 56Introduction, 56 • The Story of O, 60 • "No One toInterfere," 63 • "Let Me In!," 68 • The Story of "Oh!,"75 • The O of Experience and the World Stack, 813 George Eliot and Prolepsis: Prediction, Prevention, Protection 85Introduction: Rethinking Prolepsis, 85 • Beginningsand Endings, 93 • The Future in "The Lifted Veil,"95 • Predicting the End in The Mill on the Floss, 98 •Will, Determinism, Necessity, and Narration, 103 •Development, Education, and the Futures of The Mill onthe Floss, 108 • Coda: Silas Marner, 1114 Regret, Remorse, and Realism in Elizabeth Gaskell 117Introduction, 117 • Half-Mended Stockings, 123 • Lines and Angles, 126 • What Never Happened, 133 • Remorse, Narration, Description, 136Coda 144Notes 151Bibliography 189Index 209