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The ruins of experience : Scotland's "romantick" Highlands and the birth of the modern witness / Matthew Wickman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wickman, Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Scottish authors.
- Evidence (Law).
- Experience in literature.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Scottish literature--History and criticism.
- Scottish literature.
- Subjectivity in literature.
- Witnesses in literature.
- Highlands (Scotland)--In literature.
- Highlands (Scotland).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)
- Other Title:
- Penn Press e-books.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2007]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- 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
- Notes:
- Texts examined include: poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wickman, Matthew. Ruins of experience.
- ISBN:
- 9780812203950
- 081220395X
- OCLC:
- 859160638
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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