The ruins of experience : Scotland's "romantick" Highlands and the birth of the modern witness /

"A brilliant study of legal events and of literary texts concerned with the Scottish Highlands in the late eighteenth to nineteenth century, which then provides a structure for exploring the decay of and nostalgia for experience in subsequent culture."--Tilottama Rajan, University of Weste...

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Main Author: Wickman, Matthew
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Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal --  |t Introduction. Experience and the Allure of the Improbable --  |t Chapter 1. A Musket Shot and Its Echoes --  |t Chapter 2. Aftershocks of the Appin Murder --  |t Chapter 3. Evidence and Equivalence --  |t Chapter 4. Improvement and Apocalypse --  |t Chapter 5. The Compulsions of Immediacy --  |t Chapter 6. Of Mourning and Machinery --  |t Chapter 7. Highland Romance in Late Modernity --  |t Notes --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index --  |t Acknowledgments. 
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