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Impassioned Jurisprudence

Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760 - 1848
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In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law's claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its rights with an assurance of fairness and equity. Yet, an investigation of the rational discourse of the law reveals at its core the processes of emotion, and a study of literature that engages with the law exposes the potency of emotion in the practice and understanding of the law. Examining both legal and literary texts, the authors in this collection consider the emotion that infuses the law and find that feeling, sentiment and passion are integral to juridical thought as well as to specific legislation.
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
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