Loving Justice : : Legal Emotions in William Blackstone's England / / Kathryn D. Temple.
A history of legal emotions in William Blackstone’s England and their relationship to justiceWilliam Blackstone’s masterpiece, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), famously took the “ungodly jumble” of English law and transformed it into an elegant and easily transportable four-volume su...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Shaping legal emotions in Blackstone’s England
- 1. What’s love got to do with it?: desire, disgust, and the ends of marriage law
- 2. Blackstone’s “last tear”: productive melancholia and the sense of no ending
- 3. The orator’s dilemma: public embarrassment and the promise of the book
- 4. Terror, torture, and the tender heart of the law
- 5. Blackstone’s long tail: the (un)happiness of harmonic justice
- Coda: excessive subjectivity is the new subjectivity (speculations)
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author