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Chronometres - Devotional Literature, Duration, and Victorian Reading (Hardcover)
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Chronometres - Devotional Literature, Duration, and Victorian Reading (Hardcover)
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What does it mean to feel time, to sense its passing along the
sinews and nerves of the body as much as the synapses of the mind?
And how do books, as material arrangements of print and paper,
mediate such temporal experiences? Chronometres: Devotional
Literature, Duration, and Victorian Reading Culture is a study of
the time-inflected reading practices of religious literature, the
single largest market for print in Victorian Britain. 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. Designed for diurnal and weekly reading, chronometrical
literature tuned its readers' attentions to the idea of eternity
and the everlasting peace of spiritual transcendence, but only in
so far as it parcelled out reading into discrete increments that
resembled the new industrial time-scales of factories and railway
schedules. Chronometres thus takes up print culture, affect theory,
and the religious turn in literary studies in order to explore the
intersections between devotional practice and the condition of
modernity. It argues that what defines Victorian devotional
literature is the experience of its time signatures, those
structures of feeling associated with its reading durations. For
many Victorians, reading devotionally increasingly meant reading in
regular portions and often according to the calendar and work-day
in contrast to the liturgical year. Keeping pace with the temporal
measures of modernity, devotion became a routinized practice: a way
of synchronizing the interior life of spirit with the exigencies of
clock time. Chronometres considers how the deliverances afforded
through time-scaled reading are persistently materialised in the
body, both that of the book and of the reader. Recognizing that
literature and devotion are not timeless abstractions, it asks how
the materiality of books, conceived as horological relationships
through reading, might bring about the felt experience of time.
Even as Victorian devotion invites us to tarry over the page, it
also prompts the question: what if it is 'eternity' that keeps time
with the clock?
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