Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760–1848
by
Simon Stern, J. T. Scanlan, Melissa J. Ganz
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
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...