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“Praying Kin” argues that Donna Haraway’s call to “make kin” is anticipated by Christina Rossetti’s focus on prayerfulness as the spiritual basis of creation’s interdependence. With reference to her reading of Revelation, The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse (1892), and poetic setting of the Benedicite prayer, “‘All Thy Works Praise Thee, O Lord’: A Processional of Creation” (1881), the chapter suggests that Rossetti developed a model of how to prayerfully read and relate to creation. This chapter explores how such prayerfulness constituted both a spiritual preparation for the new time to come and an ecological politics in which the human could no longer assert its dominance over the other-than-human.
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Mason, E. (2019). Praying Kin: Christina Rossetti and the Unity of Things. In: Carruthers, J., Dakkak, N., Spence, R. (eds) Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790–1930 . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29817-3_10
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