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

by Nancy E. Johnson (Editor), Simon Stern (Contribution by), J. T. Scanlan (Contribution by)

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.

Author Biography

Nancy E. Johnson is associate professor of English and Chair of the English Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz.