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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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal
- Introduction. Experience and the Allure of the Improbable
- Chapter 1. A Musket Shot and Its Echoes
- Chapter 2. Aftershocks of the Appin Murder
- Chapter 3. Evidence and Equivalence
- Chapter 4. Improvement and Apocalypse
- Chapter 5. The Compulsions of Immediacy
- Chapter 6. Of Mourning and Machinery
- Chapter 7. Highland Romance in Late Modernity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.