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
