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"""The relationship between experience and realism, what it means and what it feels like to read fiction: in Adela Pinch's hands, these longstanding questions come to seem newly strange and newly fascinating. Part of her genius lies in considering how formal problems intersect not just with the experience of reading, but with what we read for: how we think about care, human vulnerability, and our existence in and through others. The Location of Experience will be required--and deeply pleasurable--reading for all who are interested in the novel, the Victorian period, or what 'counts' as experience in the first place.""---Rachel Ablow, University at Buffalo, SUNY ""This impressive and beautifully written book models a new way of understanding Victorian realism and the enduring compacts it makes with generations of devoted readers. Pinch unfolds a set of arguments linked by a carefully historicized conception of experience: its putative presence or absence as a precondition for imaginative writing; the way family feeling reverberates through narrative choice; the two-way tug of desire and prohibition in the plotting of character trajectories.""---Vanessa Smith, University of Sydney"

"""This impressive and beautifully written book models a new way of understanding Victorian realism and the enduring compacts it makes with generations of devoted readers. Pinch unfolds a set of arguments linked by a carefully historicized conception of experience: its putative presence or absence as a precondition for imaginative writing; the way family feeling reverberates through narrative choice; the two-way tug of desire and prohibition in the plotting of character trajectories.""---Vanessa Smith, University of Sydney"

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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).

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