Loving Justice : Legal Emotions in William Blackstone's England / / Kathryn D. Temple.
William 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 summary. Soon after publication, the work became an international mo...
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| Superior document: | NYU scholarship online |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : New York University Press,, [2019] Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2021 ©[2019] |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NYU scholarship online.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Notes: | Previously issued in print: 2019. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Shaping legal emotions in Blackstone's England
- What's love got to do with it? : desire, disgust, and the ends of marriage law
- Blackstone's "last tear" : productive melancholia and the sense of no ending
- The orator's dilemma : public embarrassment and the promise of the book
- Terror, torture, and the tender heart of the law
- Blackstone's long tail : the (un)happiness of harmonic justice
- Coda: Excessive subjectivity is the new subjectivity (speculations).