{"product_id":"the-ruins-of-experience-9780812239713","title":"The Ruins of Experience","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Experience and the Allure of the Improbable\u003cbr\u003e PART I. STRUCTURE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. A Musket Shot and Its Echoes: The Romantick Origins of the Modern Witness\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Aftershocks of the Appin Murder: Scott, Stevenson, and \"Storytell[ing]\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Evidence and Equivalence: The Parallel Logics of Proof and Progress\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Improvement and Apocalypse: Afterimages of the \"Promised Land\" of Modern Romance\u003cbr\u003e PART II. FEELING\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Compulsions of Immediacy: Macpherson, Wilkomirski, and Their Fragments Controversies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Of Mourning and Machinery: Contrasting Techniques of Highland Vision\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Highland Romance in Late Modernity\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405712990551,"sku":"9780812239713","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812239713.jpg?v=1730493372","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ruins-of-experience-9780812239713","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}