Description: 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.
Brief description: 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).
Review Quotes: [Pinch] offers a thrilling and richly particularized account of how we come to feel that lived experience is happening in Victorian fiction.-- "Victorian Studies"