@book{10205,
author = {Allan F. Westphall},
title = {Books and Religious Devotion: The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England},
year = {2015},
pages = {228 pp.},
publisher = {Penn State University Press},
address = {University Park, PA},
isbn = {9780271064048},
note = {
Examines the book collection of Thomas Connary, a nineteenth-century Irish Catholic New England farmer, to reconstruct how Connary read and annotated his books.
Contents:
- "I Am Here"
- Studying Used Books: The Plan of the Argument
- Reading
- Paratext
- Obsession
- Epiphany
- Irish American Print Culture In The Nineteenth Century: A Private Library
- A Collector and Reader
- F. Lewis [Louis of Granada], The Sinner's Guide
- Thomas H. Kinane, The Dove of the Tabernacle
- James Balmes, Fundamental Philosophy
- George Foxcroft Haskins, Travels in England, France, Italy, and Ireland
- Periodicals and Newspapers
- Reading for Guidance and Edification: "Book Keeping" in the Connary Household
- Epiphany: "Seeing Very Plainly"
- Laboring In My Books": Thomas Connary's Book Enhancements
- Enhancing "the Blank Paper Surface Room"
- Decorative Embellishment and Extra-Illustration
- Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
- Diary and Miscellaneous Records
- Prayers and Religious Assertions
- Planning Reading
- A Reader's Responses
- The Autonomous Reader
- Epiphany: The Lamp
- Redemptive Reading In The Connary Household
- Domestic Reading and the Presence of the Book
- The Social Annotator
- Heavenly Books
- "Putting Books to Work": A Culture of Redemptive Reading
- Book Signing
- "The Pen and the Press Blest Alliance Combined!": Thomas Connary in Print
- Epiphany: The Road To Lancaster
- The Farmer's Treasure: Thomas Connary Reading St. Francis Of Sales And Julian Of Norwich
- Reading the Classics
- The Books of "Mother Juliana" and "Our Saint Francis"
- On Being Elsewhere: Inscribing Longing and Transcendence in the Spiritual Conferences of St. Francis of Sales
- The Spiritual Epiphany
- Reading Julian
- In Dialogue with Julian
- Finding Comfort in Julian: Reflections on Incorporation and Salvation
- "The Social Joys of Heaven" and the Problem of Contention
- Epiphany: "No Priest Or Bishop In This Church But Himself Alone"
- Book Keeping, Longing, And Besetment
- In a Room of His Own: Book Enhancement and Besetment
- "We Must Never Be Too Full of Words": Preaching in Stratford
- Madness in the Books
- Vessels of Nostalgia
- Peace and Communality
},
language = {English},
}