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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... eighteenth century. And janet Sorensen's The Grammar of Empire (2000) reflected rigorously on the recurrent dynamics of core and periphery (e.g., “British” versus “Celtic”) in the linguistic (and, by extension, cultural) mechanics of ...
... eighteenth century. This is why, for Foucault, these issues do not beg an elaboration on what discourses yield (e.g., nationalism) as much as what they repress. In effect, “discourse” displaces objects in the world (the ghosts of Kant ...
... eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as the era of discursive self ... century partly functions as consolation for this rupture, but also as an ... eighteenth-century Highlanders. That said, I engage Highland romance in a variety of ...
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Contents
Experience and the Allure of the Improbable | 1 |
STRUCTURE | 21 |
FEELING | 109 |
Notes | 199 |
225 | |
241 | |
Acknowledgments | 251 |
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