![]() ![]() ![]() Far from crystallising or objectifying the issue of complaint, the book of Job seems to restore its limitless and unprecedented urgency. Asking why it was that standard consolations, which had worked for centuries, suddenly stopped working, or were treated as insults by people who felt peculiarly isolated by misery, this wide-ranging account of the improbability of complaint in the eighteenth century offers an answer. Deliberately eschewing questions of chronology or discursive coherence, genre or topic, the author offers considerations of Richardson and Fielding, Hawkesworth and the South Pacific, Goldsmith and Godwin, Hume and Walpole, Blackstone and Bentham, Burke and Longinus, and Blackmore and Wright of Derby. This book draws on the book of Job as a touchstone for the contradictions and polemics that infect various 18th century works - poetry, philosophy, political oratory, accounts of exploration, commentaries on criminal law - which tried to account for the relations between human suffering and systems of secular and divine justice. ![]()
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