Chronometres: Devotional Literature, Duration, and Victorian Reading

by Krista Lysack

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198836163
• ISBN13: 9780198836162
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.7"