{"product_id":"the-location-of-experience-9781531508609","title":"The Location of Experience","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe 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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Location of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e 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 experienceand experiences themselvesamong each other.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on intellectual history, psychology, and moral philosophy, \u003ci\u003eThe Location of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e shows that, through manipulating the psychological dimensions of fiction's formal features, Victorian women n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ME - Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409991999831,"sku":"9781531508609","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781531508609.jpg?v=1730508606","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-location-of-experience-9781531508609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}