Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 172 pages) |
Series |
Aperçus : histories texts cultures |
Contents |
Introduction / Nancy E. Johnson -- Blackstone's legal actors : the passions of a rational jurist / Simon Stern -- Narrative sentiment in Adam Smith's lectures on jurisprudence / Nancy E. Johnson -- "How like you the eloquence of a young barrister" : love and the law in Boswell's development as a writer in the late 1760s / J.T. Scanlan -- Freedom and fetters : nuptial law in Burney's The Wanderer / Melissa J. Ganz -- Doubled jeopardy : the condemned woman as historical relic / Erin Sheley -- The madness of sovereignty : George III and the known unknown of torture / Peter de Bolla -- The great dramatist : Macaulay and the English constitution / Ian Ward |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Subject |
Law and literature.
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Law -- England -- History.
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Law and literature.
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Law.
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England.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Johnson, Nancy E., 1956- editor.
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LC no. |
2021678201 |
ISBN |
1611486769 |
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9781611486766 |
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