Wounded feelings : litigating emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950 /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Reiter, Eric H., 1964- author.
Imprint:Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2019]
©2019
Description:xiii, 482 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12000073
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, issuing body.
ISBN:9781487506551
1487506554
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-467) and index.
Summary:"Wounded Feelings is the first legal history of emotions in Canada. Through detailed histories of how people litigated emotional injuries like dishonour, humiliation, grief, and betrayal before the Quebec civil courts from 1870 to 1950, it explores the confrontation between people's lived experience of emotion and the legal categories and terminology of lawyers, judges, and courts. Drawing on archival case files, supplemented by newspapers and contemporary legal writings, it examines how individuals narrated their claims of injured feelings, and how the courts assessed those claims, using legal rules, social norms, and the judges' own feelings to validate certain emotional injuries and reject others. The cases reveal both contemporary views of emotion as well as the family, gender, class, linguistic, and racial dynamics that shaped those understandings and their adjudication. Examples include a family's grief over their infant son's death due to a physician's prescription error, a wealthy woman's mortification at being harassed by a conductor aboard a train, and the indignation of two Black men at being denied seats at a Montreal cinema. The book also traces an important legal change in how moral injury was conceptualized in Quebec civil law over the period, as it came to be linked to the developing idea of personality rights. By 1950, the subjective richness of stories of wounded feelings was increasingly put into the language of violated rights, a development with implications for both social understandings of emotion and how individuals presented their emotional injuries in court."--

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 i 4500
001 12000073
003 ICU
005 20200130162248.6
008 190325s2019 onca b 001 0 eng
020 |a 9781487506551  |q (hardcover) 
020 |a 1487506554  |q (hardcover) 
035 |a (OCoLC)1090427857 
040 |a NLC  |b eng  |e rda  |c YDX  |d BDX  |d NLC  |d OCLCF  |d NLC  |d UAB  |d CLU 
042 |a lac 
043 |a n-cn-qu 
045 |a w7x5 
050 4 |a KEQ454  |b .R45 2019 
055 3 |a KF1257  |b .R458 2019 
055 0 |a KEQ454  |b .R45 2019 
082 0 |a 346.71403/23  |2 23 
084 |a cci1icc  |2 lacc 
090 |a XXKEQ454  |b .R45 2019 
100 1 |a Reiter, Eric H.,  |d 1964-  |e author.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb97054282  |1 http://viaf.org/viaf/49362755 
245 1 0 |a Wounded feelings :  |b litigating emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950 /  |c Eric H. Reiter. 
264 1 |a Toronto ;  |a Buffalo ;  |a London :  |b Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press,  |c [2019] 
264 4 |c ©2019 
300 |a xiii, 482 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 24 cm. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent  |0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia  |0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier  |0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc 
490 1 |a Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-467) and index. 
520 |a "Wounded Feelings is the first legal history of emotions in Canada. Through detailed histories of how people litigated emotional injuries like dishonour, humiliation, grief, and betrayal before the Quebec civil courts from 1870 to 1950, it explores the confrontation between people's lived experience of emotion and the legal categories and terminology of lawyers, judges, and courts. Drawing on archival case files, supplemented by newspapers and contemporary legal writings, it examines how individuals narrated their claims of injured feelings, and how the courts assessed those claims, using legal rules, social norms, and the judges' own feelings to validate certain emotional injuries and reject others. The cases reveal both contemporary views of emotion as well as the family, gender, class, linguistic, and racial dynamics that shaped those understandings and their adjudication. Examples include a family's grief over their infant son's death due to a physician's prescription error, a wealthy woman's mortification at being harassed by a conductor aboard a train, and the indignation of two Black men at being denied seats at a Montreal cinema. The book also traces an important legal change in how moral injury was conceptualized in Quebec civil law over the period, as it came to be linked to the developing idea of personality rights. By 1950, the subjective richness of stories of wounded feelings was increasingly put into the language of violated rights, a development with implications for both social understandings of emotion and how individuals presented their emotional injuries in court."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
648 7 |a 1800-1999  |2 fast 
650 0 |a Personal injuries  |z Québec (Province)  |x History  |y 19th century. 
650 0 |a Liability for emotional distress  |z Québec (Province)  |x History  |y 19th century. 
650 0 |a Personal injuries  |z Québec (Province)  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Liability for emotional distress  |z Québec (Province)  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 7 |a Liability for emotional distress.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00997105 
650 7 |a Personal injuries.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01058585 
651 7 |a Québec.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01207316 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 
710 2 |a Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History,  |e issuing body.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94025941  |1 http://viaf.org/viaf/152152692 
830 0 |a Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002048146 
903 |a HeVa 
903 |a HeVa 
929 |a cat 
999 f f |i 8d6da2fa-baef-50ad-9a46-aa0b1da113f3  |s 9951e1f7-0655-501e-8b09-f6363ca44602 
928 |t Library of Congress classification  |a XXKEQ454.R458 2019  |l DLL  |c DLL-Law  |i 11541237 
927 |t Library of Congress classification  |a XXKEQ454.R458 2019  |l DLL  |c DLL-Law  |e MORR  |b 74292418  |i 10203689