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

Oxford University Press UK (1995)
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Draws on the book of Job as a touchstone for the contradictions and polemics that infect 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.

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