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[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. * Jill Ireland, The Glass *

Chronometres: Devotional Literature, Duration, and Victorian Reading is an insightful study on the infusion of the religious and the secular in Victorian devotional literature. Krista Lysack methodically demonstrates the horological nature of these sacred texts and the inherent paradoxes that arise in a sacred genre governed bysecular industrial time. * Jennifer Wale, Haifa University, Modern Language Review * [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. * Jill Ireland, The Glass *

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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.

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