2. Blackstone’s “last tear”: productive melancholia and the sense of no ending

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction. Shaping legal emotions in Blackstone’s England 1
4. 1. What’s love got to do with it?: desire, disgust, and the ends of marriage law 27
5. 2. Blackstone’s “last tear”: productive melancholia and the sense of no ending 60
6. 3. The orator’s dilemma: public embarrassment and the promise of the book 89
7. 4. Terror, torture, and the tender heart of the law 113
8. 5. Blackstone’s long tail: the (un)happiness of harmonic justice 147
9. Coda: excessive subjectivity is the new subjectivity (speculations) 183
10. Acknowledgments 189
11. Notes 193
12. Bibliography 227
13. Index 251
14. About the author 265