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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wickman, Matthew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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.
Item Description:Texts examined include: poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780812203950

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