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Lost in the Backwoods
- Scots and the North American Wilderness
Engelsk Hardback
Lost in the Backwoods
- Scots and the North American Wilderness
Engelsk Hardback

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How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its émigré experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America''s harshest landscapes. Most Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encountered the practical, moral and cultural challenges of the wilderness, with its many tensions and contradictions. Jenni Calder explores the effect of these experiences on the Scots imagination. Associated with displacement and disappearance, the ''wilderness'' was also a source of adventure and redemption, of exploitation and spiritual regeneration, of freedom and restriction. An arena of greed, cruelty and cannibalism, of courage, generosity and mutual understanding, it brought out the best and the worst of humanity. Did the Scots who emigrated exchange one extreme for another, or did they discover a new idea of identity, freedom and landscape?
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780748647392
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0748647392
Udg. Dato:
13 maj 2013
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
13 maj 2013
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