The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern WitnessThere emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, linked with the growing prominence of lawyers and a formalized division of labor between witnesses and jurors, combined to devalue the authority of witness testimony, magnifying the rupture between experience and knowledge. Juries now pronounced verdicts based not upon the certainty of direct experience but rather upon abstractions of probability or reasonable likelihood. |
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... Progress 69 4. Improvement and Apocalypse : Afterimages of the " Promised Land " of Modern Romance 90 PART II . FEELING 5. The Compulsions of Immediacy : Macpherson , Wilkomirski , and Their Fragments Controversies 111 6. Of Mourning ...
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Contents
The Romantick Origins of the Modern Witness | 23 |
Highland Romance in Late Modernity | 171 |
Notes | 199 |
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