This book contends that when late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own.

In this book, Adela Pinch explains why, when, and under what conditions it is possible, or desirable, to believe that thinking about another person could affect them.

The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living is available from Knowledge Unlatched on open-access basis.