The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory

by Andrew Blaikie

This highly original study explores how different, but connected ways of seeing infuse relationships between place and belonging. Its argument is that all memories, whether fleeting glimpses or elaborated narratives, necessarily invoke imagined pasts - tenement life, island cultures, vanished moralities, even the origins of social science. But do these multiple recollections share a common frame of reference? Are perceptions conditioned by a collective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748617868
• ISBN13: 9780748617869
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher