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- Title
The Productions of Time: Keble, Rossetti, and Victorian Devotional Reading.
- Authors
LYSACK, KRISTA
- Abstract
While many nineteenth-century readers lauded John Keble's bestselling The Christian Year (1827) for its soothing properties, its Victorian print afterlife suggests how devotion was being redefined as the century went on: as a set of reading practices premised upon distraction and divided time. Indeed, as a scene from George Gissing's The Odd Women (1893) illustrates, the chronotopes of Keble's liturgical time and of modernity's industrial time, while distinct, were coming to resemble one another for many readers of weekly and daily devotional books. In Time Flies: A Reading Diary (1885), one of Keble's most innovative interpolators, Christina Rossetti, embraces this apparent synchronization, playfully revealing how eternal time is produced through a material relation with the devotional book as diurnal reading object.
- Subjects
CHRISTIAN Year, The (Book); ODD Women, The (Book); TIME Flies: A Reading Diary (Book); KEBLE, John, 1792-1866; GISSING, George, 1857-1903; ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894; ENGLISH devotional literature; 19TH century English literature; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Studies, 2013, Vol 55, Issue 3, p451
- ISSN
0042-5222
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.2979/victorianstudies.55.3.451