Impassioned Jurisprudence : Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760-1848.

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Stern, Simon, 1971-

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TextSeries: Aperçus: Histories Texts CulturesPublication details: Cranbury : Bucknell University Press, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (199 pages)Content type:

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9781611486766
1611486769

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Blackstone's Legal Actors: The Passions of a Rational Jurist; Narrative Sentiment in Adam Smith's Lectures on Jurisprudence; "How Like You the Eloquence of a Young Barrister?": Love and the Law in Boswell's Development as a Writer in the Late 1760s; Freedom and Fetters: Nuptial Law in Burney's The Wanderer; Doubled Jeopardy: The Condemned Woman as Historical Relic; The Madness of Sovereignty: George III and the Known Unknown of Torture; The Great Dramatist: Macaulay and the English Constitution.

Timeline of Selected Legal Publications, Legislation, and Events, 1688-1848Bibliography; Index; Contributors.

Summary: This collection of essays by scholars of the law and literature movement explores the place of the passions in English law of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While some of the essays elucidate the forces of emotion in legal texts, others consider the representation of impassioned jurisprudence in literary texts. Together these essays provide insight into the foundations of modern juridical thought.

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Timeline of Selected Legal Publications, Legislation, and Events, 1688-1848Bibliography; Index; Contributors.

This collection of essays by scholars of the law and literature movement explores the place of the passions in English law of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While some of the essays elucidate the forces of emotion in legal texts, others consider the representation of impassioned jurisprudence in literary texts. Together these essays provide insight into the foundations of modern juridical thought.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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