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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 Western Ontario. |
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| Notas: | Texts examined include: poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812203950 081220395X |