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

Matthew Wickman

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2007

The Ruins of Experience

Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness

Matthew Wickman

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203950

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About this book

"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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Matthew Wickman teaches English at Brigham Young University.

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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 Western Ontario

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Experience and the Allure of the Improbable Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Structure
Chapter 1. A Musket Shot and Its Echoes The Romantick Origins of the Modern Witness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2. Aftershocks of the Appin Murder Scott, Stevenson, and "Storytell[ing]" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 3. Evidence and Equivalence The Parallel Logics of Proof and Progress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Chapter 4. Improvement and Apocalypse Afterimages of the ''Promised Land" of Modern Romance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Part Two. Feeling
Chapter 5. The Compulsions of Immediacy Macpherson, Wilkomirski, and Their Fragments Controversies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 6. Of Mourning and Machinery Contrasting Techniques of Highland Vision Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Chapter 7. Highland Romance in Late Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 23, 2013
ISBN: 9780812203950