Background
Lamb, Jonathan was born on May 3, 1945 in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Came to the United States, 1995.
(The Rhetoric of Suffering provides a fresh approach to su...)
The 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 suffering and systems of secular and divine justice. Deliberately downplaying questions of chronology or discursive coherence, genre, or topic, he offers considerations of Richardson and Fielding, Hawkesworth and the South Pacific, Goldsmith and Godwin, Hume and Bolingbroke, Blackstone and Bentham, Burke and Longinus, and Blackmore and Wright of Derby.
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Lamb, Jonathan was born on May 3, 1945 in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Came to the United States, 1995.
Bachelor, University York, United Kingdom, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, University York, United Kingdom, 1971.
Lecturer, U. Auckland, New Zealand, 1969-1974; senior lecturer, U. Auckland, New Zealand, 1974-1990; associate professor, U. Auckland, New Zealand, 1990-1994; Professor of English, Princeton (New Jersey) U., since 1995. President Australian and Pacific Society Eighteenth Century Studies, since 1993. Convenor David Nichol Smith Seminar, 1993.
(The Rhetoric of Suffering provides a fresh approach to su...)
Member American Society 18th Century Studies, New Zealand Academy Humanities.
Married Susan Atkinson, August 29, 1967 (divorced November 1994). Children: Esther Margaret, Rebecca Madeleine. Married Bridge Orr, December 3, 1994.