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
