Location of experience, the: victorian women writers, the novel, and the feeling of living
Auteur :
Pinch, Adela
Éditeur :
Fordham University Press
ISBN :
9781531508616
Date de publication :
15 oct. 2024
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.