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

• Introduction by Nancy E. JohnsonChapter 1: Blackstone’s Legal Actors: The Passions of a Rational Jurist by Simon SternChapter 2: Narrative Sentiment in Adam Smith’s Lectures on Jurisprudence by Nancy E. JohnsonChapter 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. ScanlanChapter 4: Freedom and Fetters: Nuptial Law in Burney’s The Wanderer by Melissa J. GanzChapter 5: Doubled Jeopardy: The Condemned Woman as Historical Relic by Erin SheleyChapter 6: The Madness of Sovereignty: George III and the Known Unknown of Torture by Peter de BollaChapter 7: The Great Dramatist: Macaulay and the English Constitution by Ian WardAppendix: Timeline of Selected Legal Publications, Legislation and Events Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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

• Introduction by Nancy E. JohnsonChapter 1: Blackstone’s Legal Actors: The Passions of a Rational Jurist by Simon SternChapter 2: Narrative Sentiment in Adam Smith’s Lectures on Jurisprudence by Nancy E. JohnsonChapter 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. ScanlanChapter 4: Freedom and Fetters: Nuptial Law in Burney’s The Wanderer by Melissa J. GanzChapter 5: Doubled Jeopardy: The Condemned Woman as Historical Relic by Erin SheleyChapter 6: The Madness of Sovereignty: George III and the Known Unknown of Torture by Peter de BollaChapter 7: The Great Dramatist: Macaulay and the English Constitution by Ian WardAppendix: Timeline of Selected Legal Publications, Legislation and Events Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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

• Introduction by Nancy E. JohnsonChapter 1: Blackstone’s Legal Actors: The Passions of a Rational Jurist by Simon SternChapter 2: Narrative Sentiment in Adam Smith’s Lectures on Jurisprudence by Nancy E. JohnsonChapter 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. ScanlanChapter 4: Freedom and Fetters: Nuptial Law in Burney’s The Wanderer by Melissa J. GanzChapter 5: Doubled Jeopardy: The Condemned Woman as Historical Relic by Erin SheleyChapter 6: The Madness of Sovereignty: George III and the Known Unknown of Torture by Peter de BollaChapter 7: The Great Dramatist: Macaulay and the English Constitution by Ian WardAppendix: Timeline of Selected Legal Publications, Legislation and Events Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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