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- Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Mediating the Modern
- Chapter 2 Memory and Revolution
- Chapter 3 Tractarian Liturgies
- Chapter 4 Realist Liturgies
- Chapter 5 Liturgical Aestheticism
- Chapter 6 Against Immanence
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Chapter 3 - Tractarian Liturgies
John Keble, Charlotte Yonge, and the Deification of Ordinary Life
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2024
- Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Mediating the Modern
- Chapter 2 Memory and Revolution
- Chapter 3 Tractarian Liturgies
- Chapter 4 Realist Liturgies
- Chapter 5 Liturgical Aestheticism
- Chapter 6 Against Immanence
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
John Keble and his protégé Charlotte Yonge take ritual time in a seemingly humbler, domestic direction. Rather than using higher time to engage an overarching political project as Wordsworth did with the Revolution, they see the church calendar as sacralizing even the smallest mundane tasks – the trivial round, as Keble calls it. Yet, for Keble, the transfiguration of daily work performed in linear time leads to nothing less than humanity’s deification or theosis, to use the language of the Greek Church Fathers venerated by the Oxford Movement. For Yonge, higher time and the Prayer Book’s liturgies not only reconcile reason and faith but also structure the material work of parish reform – the building of a local school, the repair of a dilapidated neighborhood, the hiring of a responsible priest to replace an absentee one. Through liturgy, therefore, the Tractarians can attend to everyday life while still seeing that life as sharing in the divine.
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