How Long to Read The Rhetoric of Suffering

How Long Does it Take to Read The Rhetoric of Suffering?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read The Rhetoric of Suffering by Jonathan Lamb

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Rhetoric of Suffering draws on the book of Job as a touchstone for the contradictions and polemics that infect various C18th works - poetry, philosophy, political oratory, accounts of exploration, commentaries on criminal law - which tried to account for the relations between humansuffering and systems of secular and divine justice. Deliberately eschewing questions of chronology or discursive coherence, genre or topic, Jonathan Lamb 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 ofDerby. 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. Far from crystallizing or objectifying the issue of complaint, the book of Job seems to restore its limitless and unprecedented urgency. The Rhetoric of Suffering examines complaints that fall into this dissident and singular category, and relates their improbability to the aesthetics of thesublime, and to current theories of practice and communication. Lamb focuses on William Warburton's contentious interpretation of Job, contained in his Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated (1738-1741), a prime example of the debate that emerges when Job is used as an unequivocal justification ofprovidence.

How long is The Rhetoric of Suffering?

The Rhetoric of Suffering by Jonathan Lamb is 329 pages long, and a total of 85,211 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Rhetoric of Suffering Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 45 minutes to read The Rhetoric of Suffering aloud.

What Reading Level is The Rhetoric of Suffering?

The Rhetoric of Suffering is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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