The Ruins of Experience : Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness /

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"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.
Temas:
Witnesses in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Scottish literature.
Literature.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Experience in literature.
Evidence (Law)
English literature > Scottish authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
epistemology.
Subjectivite dans la litterature.
Litterature ecossaise > Histoire et critique.
Litterature > Histoire et critique.
Theorie de la connaissance.
Experience dans la litterature.
Preuve (Droit)
Litterature anglaise > Auteurs ecossais > Histoire et critique.
Scottish literature > History and criticism.
Literature > History and criticism.
English literature > Scottish authors > History and criticism.
Scotland > Highlands.
Highlands (Scotland) > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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