Loving justice : legal emotions in William Blackstone's England / Kathryn 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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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)
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.