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

by Jonathan Lamb

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198182643
• ISBN13: 9780198182641
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"