The Ruins of Experience : : Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness / / Matthew Wickman.
There emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, link...
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Wickman, Matthew, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Ruins of Experience : Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness / Matthew Wickman. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013] ©2007 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal -- Introduction. Experience and the Allure of the Improbable -- Part One. Structure -- 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 -- Part Two. Feeling -- Chapter 5. The Compulsions of Immediacy -- Chapter 6. Of Mourning and Machinery -- Chapter 7. Highland Romance in Late Modernity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star There emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, linked with the growing prominence of lawyers and a formalized division of labor between witnesses and jurors, combined to devalue the authority of witness testimony, magnifying the rupture between experience and knowledge. Juries now pronounced verdicts based not upon the certainty of direct experience but rather upon abstractions of probability or reasonable likelihood. Yet even as these changes were occurring, the Scottish Highlands and Hebridean Islands were attracting increased attention as a region where witness experience in sublime and communal forms had managed to trump enlightened progress and the probabilistic, abstract, and mediated mentality on which the Enlightenment was predicated. There, in a remote corner of Britain, natives and tourists beheld things that surpassed enlightened understanding; experience was becoming all the more alluring to the extent that it signified something other than knowledge.Matthew Wickman examines this uncanny return of experiential authority at the very moment of its supposed decline and traces the alluring improbability of experience into our own time. Thematic in its focus and cross-disciplinary in its approach, The Ruins of Experience situates the literary next to the nonliterary, the old beside the new. Wickman looks to poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives to suggest an alternative historical view of the paradoxical tensions of the Enlightenment and Romantic eras. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) English literature Scottish authors History and criticism. English literature Scottish authors. Evidence (Law). Experience in literature. Knowledge, Theory of. Literature History and criticism. Scottish literature History and criticism. Cultural Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812239713 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203950 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812203950 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812203950/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal -- Introduction. Experience and the Allure of the Improbable -- Part One. Structure -- 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 -- Part Two. Feeling -- 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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