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Loving justice : legal emotions in William Blackstone's England /

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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Main Author: Temple, Kathryn, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Blackstone, William, > 1723-1780. > Commentaries on the laws of England.
Blackstone, William, > 1723-1780 > Criticism and interpretation.
Blackstone, William, > 1723-1780
Commentaries on the laws of England (Blackstone, William)
Justice in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Law > England > History.
Practice of law > England > Psychological aspects.
Law > Psychological aspects.
Law and aesthetics.
Justice dans la littérature.
Droit > Angleterre > Histoire.
Droit > Pratique > Angleterre > Aspect psychologique.
Droit > Aspect psychologique.
Droit et esthétique.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Emotions in literature
Justice in literature
Law
Law and aesthetics
Law > Psychological aspects
Practice of law > Psychological aspects
England
Commentaries on the Laws of England.
English legal history.
Guantanamo Bay.
Harper Lee.
Law and Humanities.
Nathaniel Hawes.
Onslow v. Horne.
Terry Lee Morris.
Westminster Hall.
Wollstonecraft.
aesthetics.
affective aesthetics.
bodies.
close reading.
commodification.
cruel optimism.
curatorial reading.
electric shock.
empathy.
empire.
excessive subjectivity.
gothic.
gradualism.
graveyard poets.
harmonic justice.
history of emotions.
jury trial.
marriage law.
orientalism.
peine forte et dure.
poetics.
poetry.
productive melancholia.
real property.
sympathy.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:EBSCOhost
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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)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author.

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