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Cover; Chronometres: Devotional Literature, Duration, And Victorian Reading; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List Of Illustrations; Introduction: Victorian Devotional Literature And The Strangeness Of Everyday Time; The Observance Of Victorian Time: Long, Short, And Empty; The Everyday: Time, Attention, And Reading; A Note On The Religious Turn; Chapter Summaries; Part I: Devotional Books In Time; 1: The Christian Year And The Consolations Of Synchronized Time; The Tempo Of Tractarian Consolation: Correspondence And The Christian Year Now And Then Readers: Modular Reading And The Consolations Of Distraction2: Christina Rossetti's Chronometrical Eternal; Reserve, The Book, And The Quotidian; Miscellany And The Temporally Sifted Self: The Reader As Writer; Time Flies: Calibrating Eternity To The Clock; Eternity Is In Love With The Productions Of Time; Part Ii: The Form And Feel Of Devotional Reading; 3: Family Prayers: Devotional Daydreaming, Household Time, And The Labours Of Attention; Forms For Families; Family Devotions And Domestic Order; Household Time And Devotional Efficiency; Devotional Inattention Devotion And The Opportunities Of Reverie4: Sunday Reading: Boredom, Leisure, And Periodical Diversion; Victorian Sabbatarianism; Boredom And The Book; Evangelical Leisure Reading And The Sunday At Home; The End Of Boredom?: Sunday Time And The Chronometrics Of Diversion; Part Iii: Material Devotions And The Devotional Day; 5: Arranging Daily Gifts Of Devotion: Frances Ridley Havergal's Botanical Book Craft; Gift Books And Devotional Botany: Or, Frances Ridley Havergal's Horticultural Horology; Pressing Out The Day: Havergal's Royal Series And Material Time 6: Apportioning The Devotional Day: Daily Textbooks, Reading Systems, And In Memoriam A.h.h. Textbooks And The Daily Portion; A Use In Measured Language Lies: The Devotional Uses Of In Memoriam; Our Little Systems Have Their Day: Daily Textbooks And The Devotional Distributions Of In Memoriam; Reading Sys