ABSTRACT Scholars of emotion and the law have sought to demonstrate the significant role emotion plays in shaping the operation of courtrooms, the development of legal theory and practice, and the possibilities for justice. This paper contributes to the discussion by exploring what happens when emotion is ignored or underplayed in trial narratives, seeking to demonstrate that whose emotion is considered to be important can shed light on power dynamics, law and the cultures in which law operates. It does so through a case study of women on trial for murdering their husbands in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It argues that emotion is not simply another species of evidence that can be used in criminal processes, but itself a type of narrative – emotion is constructed and performed by actors in legal dramas and forms a competing story to others in the courtroom space.

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叙事、法律和情感：19 世纪初爱尔兰的丈夫杀手

摘要情感和法律学者试图证明情感在塑造法庭运作、法律理论和实践的发展以及正义的可能性方面发挥的重要作用。本文通过探讨在审判叙述中忽略或低估情感时会发生什么来促进讨论，​​试图证明谁的情感被认为是重要的，可以阐明权力动态、法律和法律运作的文化。它是通过对 19 世纪早期爱尔兰因谋杀丈夫而受审的妇女的案例研究来实现的。它认为，情感不仅仅是另一种可用于刑事诉讼的证据，