Impassioned Jurisprudence

Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760-1848
Herausgeber: Johnson, Nancy E.

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Together these essays provide insight into the foundations of modern juridical thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781611486773
• ISBN-10: 1611486777
• Artikelnr.: 42372435

Autorenporträt

Edited by Nancy E. Johnson - Contributions by Simon Stern; J.T. Scanlan; Melissa J. Ganz; Erin Sheley; Peter de Bolla and Ian Ward

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Nancy E. Johnson Chapter 1: Blackstone's Legal Actors: The
Passions of a Rational Jurist by Simon Stern Chapter 2: Narrative Sentiment
in Adam Smith's Lectures on Jurisprudence by Nancy E. Johnson Chapter 3:
'How Like You the Eloquence of a Young Barrister?: Love and the Law in
Boswell's Development as a Writer in the Late 1760s by J.T. Scanlan Chapter
4: Freedom and Fetters: Nuptial Law in Burney's The Wanderer by Melissa J.
Ganz Chapter 5: Doubled Jeopardy: The Condemned Woman as Historical Relic
by Erin Sheley Chapter 6: The Madness of Sovereignty: George III and the
Known Unknown of Torture by Peter de Bolla Chapter 7: The Great Dramatist:
Macaulay and the English Constitution by Ian Ward Appendix: Timeline of
Selected Legal Publications, Legislation and Events Bibliography Notes on
Contributors Index