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020			_a9781531508616
028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No.- 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c: 121071 _d: 17/12/2024
082			_a338.4 PIN
100			_aPinch, Adela.
245			_aThe Location of Experience _b: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living. _c/Adela Pinch.
260			_a, Michigan _b: Fordham University Press _c,2025.
300			_a212p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1956
520			_aWe 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.
650			_aLived experience
650			_aIntellectual life
650			_aPhilosophy
700			_aAdela Pinch
942			_cBOOK
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