Loving Justice : Legal Emotions in William Blackstone's England /

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 transpor...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Temple, Kathryn D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Blackstone, William,-1723-1780-Criticism and interpretation.
Blackstone, William,-1723-1780.-Commentaries on the laws of England.
Emotions in literature.
Justice in literature.
Law and aesthetics.
Law > Psychological aspects.
Law > England > History.
Law-England-History.
Law-Psychological aspects.
Practice of law > England > Psychological aspects.
Practice of law-England-Psychological aspects.
LAW / General.
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.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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