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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Edited by Nancy E. Johnson - Contributions by Simon Stern; J.T. Scanlan; Melissa J. Ganz; Erin Sheley; Peter de Bolla and 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. Together these essays provide insight into the foundations of modern juridical thought.

Product details

• Assisted by: Nancy E Johnson (Editor), Nancy E. Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611486759
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-675-9
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 224 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures; Apercus: Histories Texts Cultu; Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures; Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries