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The Location of Experience argues 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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Adela Pinch
Summary
The Location of Experience argues 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.
