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The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century Lamb, Jonathan (Professor of English, Professor of English, Princeton University)
The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century
Lamb, Jonathan (Professor of English, Professor of English, Princeton University)
This work draws on the "Book of Job" in examining the contradictions in various 18th-century works, such as poetry, poetical oratory, accounts of exploration and commentaries on criminal law, which try to account for the relations between human suffering and systems of secular and divine justice.
342 pages, 4 pp plates, bibliography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 28, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198182641 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 342 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 159 × 28 mm · 653 g |
| Language | English |