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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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