James Fitzjames Stephen and the Crisis of Victorian Thought.
Colaiaco, James A. James Fitzjames Stephen and the Crisis of Victorian Thought. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1983]. xiii, 266 pp. Portrait. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $35. * An intellectual and legal biography of the formidable Victorian jurist, codifier, and essayist James Fitzjames Stephen. Colaiaco analyzes Stephen's influential contributions to criminal jurisprudence, legal history, and political philosophy against the backdrop of late 19th-century intellectual shifts. The text offers an in-depth examination of Stephen's fierce defense of authoritarian liberalism, his critique of utilitarian democracy, and his enduring work on the codification of colonial and domestic law.
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