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