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The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century

The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century

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ISBN10: 0198182643
ISBN13: 9780198182641
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Sep 28 1995
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
The Rhetoric of Suffering provides a fresh approach to such topics as the rise of the novel, sociability of sentiment, and the communitarian emphasis in eighteenth-century literature. Lamb draws on the Book of Job as a touchstone for the contradictions and polemics found in various eighteenth-century works--poetry, philosophy, political oratory, accounts of exploration, commentaries on criminal law--which try to account for the relations between human suffering and systems of secular and divine justice. Deliberately downplaying questions of chronology or discursive coherence, genre, or topic, he offers considerations of Richardson and Fielding, Hawkesworth and the South Pacific, Goldsmith and Godwin, Hume and Bolingbroke, Blackstone and Bentham, Burke and Longinus, and Blackmore and Wright of Derby.

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