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The ruins of experience : Scotland's "romantick" Highlands and the birth of the modern witness
- Title
- The ruins of experience : Scotland's "romantick" Highlands and the birth of the modern witness / Matthew Wickman.
- Author
- Wickman, Matthew.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2007], ©2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | PR8522.E97 W53 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 252 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- Texts examined include: poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index.
- Contents
- Preface : Scottish highland romance : a reappraisal -- Introduction : experience and the allure of the improbable -- 1. A musket shot and its echoes : the Romantick origins of the modern witness -- 2. Aftershocks of the Appin murder : Scott, Stevenson, and "storytell[ing]" -- 3. Evidence and equivalence : the parallel logics of proof and progress -- 4. Improvement and apocalypse : afterimages of the "promised land" of modern romance -- 5. The compulsions of immediacy : Macpherson, Wilkomirski, and their Fragments controversies -- 6. Of mourning and machinery : contrasting techniques of highland vision -- 7. Highland romance in late modernity.
- ISBN
- 0812239717 (acid-free paper)
- 9780812239713 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2006044658
- 9780812239713
- OCLC
- OCM72161919
- 72161919
- SCSB-5313014
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries