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A history of legal emotions in William Blackstone’s England and their relationship to justice William Blackstone’s masterpiece, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), famously took the “ungodly jumble” of English law and transformed it into an elegant and easily transportable four-volume s...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-894832024-05-30T11:28:08Z Loving Justice Temple, Kathryn D. aesthetics affective aesthetics bodies close reading Commentaries on the Laws of England commodification cruel optimism curatorial reading electric shock empathy empire English legal history excessive subjectivity gothic gradualism graveyard poets Guantanamo Bay harmonic justice Harper Lee history of emotions jury trial Law and Humanities marriage law Nathaniel Hawes Onslow v. Horne orientalism peine forte et dure poetics poetry productive melancholia real property sympathy Terry Lee Morris Westminster Hall Wollstonecraft thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAT Legal profession / practice of law: general::LATC Legal ethics and professional conduct A history of legal emotions in William Blackstone’s England and their relationship to justice William Blackstone’s masterpiece, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), famously took the “ungodly jumble” of English law and transformed it into an elegant and easily transportable four-volume summary. Soon after publication, the work became an international monument not only to English law, but to universal English concepts of justice and what Blackstone called “the immutable laws of good and evil.” Most legal historians regard the Commentaries as a brilliant application of Enlightenment reasoning to English legal history. Loving Justice contends that Blackstone’s work extends beyond making sense of English law to invoke emotions such as desire, disgust, sadness, embarrassment, terror, tenderness, and happiness. By enlisting an affective aesthetics to represent English law as just, Blackstone created an evocative poetics of justice whose influence persists across the Western world. In doing so, he encouraged readers to feel as much as reason their way to justice. Ultimately, Temple argues that the Commentaries offers a complex map of our affective relationship to juridical culture, one that illuminates both individual and communal understandings of our search for justice, and is crucial for understanding both justice and injustice today. 2024-04-03T10:12:34Z 2024-04-03T10:12:34Z 2019 book ONIX_20240403_9781479832637_201 9781479832637 9781479895274 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89483 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 9781479832637_WEB.pdf 9781479832637_EPUB.epub New York University Press NYU Press 10.18574/nyu/9781479832637.001.0001 10.18574/nyu/9781479832637.001.0001 7d95336a-0494-42b2-ad9c-8456b2e29ddc 9781479832637 9781479895274 NYU Press New York open access
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