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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Temple, Kathryn, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.