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  1. The ruins of experience
    Scotland's "romantick" Highlands and the birth of the modern witness
    Published: c2007
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0812239717; 9780812203950; 9780812239713
    Subjects: Literatur; English literature; Evidence (Law); Experience in literature; Knowledge, Theory of; Literature; Scottish literature; Subjectivity in literature; Witnesses in literature
    Scope: xv, 252 p
    Notes:

    Texts examined include: poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index

  2. The ruins of experience
    Scotland's 'romantick' highlands and the birth of the modern witness
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa.

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    1 A 648587
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2007 A 1363
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    2008 A 3782
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0812239717; 9780812239713
    Other identifier:
    9780812239713
    2006044658
    RVK Categories: HL 1131
    Subjects: Experience in literature; English literature; Scottish literature; Literature; Witnesses in literature; Subjectivity in literature; Knowledge, Theory of; Evidence (Law); Culture and law; English literature; English literature; Enlightenment; Romanticism
    Scope: XV, 252 S, 23 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. [225] - 239

  3. The ruins of experience
    Scotland's 'romantick' highlands and the birth of the modern witness
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa.

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0812239717; 9780812239713
    Other identifier:
    9780812239713
    2006044658
    RVK Categories: HL 1131
    Subjects: Experience in literature; English literature; Scottish literature; Literature; Witnesses in literature; Subjectivity in literature; Knowledge, Theory of; Evidence (Law); Culture and law; English literature; English literature; Enlightenment; Romanticism
    Scope: XV, 252 S, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. [225] - 239

  4. The ruins of experience
    Scotland's "romantick" Highlands and the birth of the modern witness
    Published: c2007
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    "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... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
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    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim
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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. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal -- Introduction: Experience and the Allure of the Improbable -- PART I: STRUCTURE -- 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 -- PART II: FEELING -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0812239717; 9780812239713
    Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of; Literature; Scottish literature; Subjectivity in literature; Witnesses in literature; Evidence (Law); Experience in literature; English literature; English literature ; Scottish authors ; History and criticism; Evidence (Law); Experience in literature; Knowledge, Theory of; Literature ; History and criticism; Scottish literature ; History and criticism; Subjectivity in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xv, 252 p)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index

    Texts examined include: poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives

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    ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal""; ""Introduction: Experience and the Allure of the Improbable""; ""PART I: STRUCTURE""; ""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""; ""PART II: FEELING""

    ""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""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Acknowledgments""