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Book SynopsisA 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
Trade Review"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 *
Table of ContentsPreface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal
Introduction: Experience and the Allure of the Improbable
PART I. STRUCTURE
Chapter 1. A Musket Shot and Its Echoes: The Romantick Origins of the Modern Witness
Chapter 2. Aftershocks of the Appin Murder: Scott, Stevenson, and "Storytell[ing]"
Chapter 3. Evidence and Equivalence: The Parallel Logics of Proof and Progress
Chapter 4. Improvement and Apocalypse: Afterimages of the "Promised Land" of Modern Romance
PART II. FEELING
Chapter 5. The Compulsions of Immediacy: Macpherson, Wilkomirski, and Their Fragments Controversies
Chapter 6. Of Mourning and Machinery: Contrasting Techniques of Highland Vision
Chapter 7. Highland Romance in Late Modernity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
