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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wickman, Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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