Adela Pinch

The Location of Experience (eBook, ePUB)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Knowledge Unlatched on open-access basis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knowledge Unlatched
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781531508623
• Artikelnr.: 72247697

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Experience on the Move: Transitioning, Transferring, Containing, 3
Narrative Relations, Novel Worlds, 7
The Organization of This Book, 10
Women Writers, Women Readers, Feminist Theory, 12
Acknowledgments, 15 1 Transfers of Experience: Brontës, Gaskell, Meynell, Sinclair 18 Introduction, 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, 50 2 The Story of O: Margaret Oliphant and Anti-metalepsis 56 Introduction, 56
The Story of O, 60
"No One to Interfere," 63
"Let Me In!," 68
The Story of "Oh!," 75
The O of Experience and the World Stack, 81 3 George Eliot and Prolepsis: Prediction, Prevention, Protection 85 Introduction: Rethinking Prolepsis, 85
Beginnings and 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 on the Floss, 108
Coda: Silas Marner, 111 4 Regret, Remorse, and Realism in Elizabeth Gaskell 117 Introduction, 117
Half-Mended Stockings, 123
Lines and Angles, 126
What Never Happened, 133
Remorse, Narration, Description, 136 Coda 144 Notes 151 Bibliography 189 Index 209