Krista Lysack

Chronometres

Devotional Literature, Duration, and Victorian Reading

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the reading culture and practices of Victorian devotional literature. It examines poetic cycles by John Keble, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and Frances Ridley Havergal; family prayer manuals, Sunday-reading books and periodicals; and devotional gift books and daily textbooks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780198836162
• ISBN-10: 0198836163
• Artikelnr.: 56790395

Autorenporträt

Krista Lysack is an Associate Professor at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women's Writing.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Victorian Devotional Literature and the Strangeness of
Everyday Time
* Part One: Devotional Books in Time
* 1: The Christian Year and the Consolations of Synchronized Time
* 2: Christina Rossetti's Chronometrical Eternal
* Part Two: The Form and Feel of Devotional Reading
* 3: Family Prayers: Devotional Daydreaming, Household Time, and the
Labours of Attention
* 4: Sunday Reading: Boredom, Leisure, and Periodical Diversion
* Part Three: Material Devotions and the Devotional Day
* 5: Arranging Daily Gifts of Devotion: Frances Ridley Havergal's
Botanical Book Craft
* 6: Apportioning the Devotional Day: Daily Textbooks, Reading Systems,
and In Memoriam A. H. H.
* Afterword: Two Meditations
* Bibliography