Chronometres: Devotional Literature, Duration, and Victorian Reading

ISBN-13: 9780198836162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Krista Lysack

Opis

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.

Recenzje

[an] intriguing exploration of religious publications designed for daily or weekly reading ... Chronometres interrogates devotional textbooks as intersections between the vastness of eternity as long time and the short time of 'small-scale reading moments' that would fit neatly into the schedules of Victorian everyday life.

O autorze

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.