UID:
almafu_9958352317602883
Format:
1 online resource (272 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9780812203950
Content:
"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 --
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Contents --
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Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal --
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Introduction. Experience and the Allure of the Improbable --
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Chapter 1. A Musket Shot and Its Echoes --
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Chapter 2. Aftershocks of the Appin Murder --
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Chapter 3. Evidence and Equivalence --
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Chapter 4. Improvement and Apocalypse --
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Chapter 5. The Compulsions of Immediacy --
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Chapter 6. Of Mourning and Machinery --
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Chapter 7. Highland Romance in Late Modernity --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
