TY - SER
AU - Allan F. Westphall
CY - University Park, PA
LA - English
N1 - <p>Examines the book collection of Thomas Connary, a nineteenth-century Irish Catholic New England farmer, to reconstruct how Connary read and annotated his books.&nbsp;</p><p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>"I Am Here" </li><li>Studying Used Books: The Plan of the Argument </li><li>Reading </li><li>Paratext </li><li>Obsession </li><li>Epiphany </li><li>Irish American Print Culture In The Nineteenth Century: A Private Library </li><li>A Collector and Reader </li><li>F. Lewis [Louis of Granada], The Sinner's Guide </li><li>Thomas H. Kinane, The Dove of the Tabernacle </li><li>James Balmes, Fundamental Philosophy </li><li>George Foxcroft Haskins, Travels in England, France, Italy, and Ireland </li><li>Periodicals and Newspapers </li><li>Reading for Guidance and Edification: "Book Keeping" in the Connary Household </li><li>Epiphany: "Seeing Very Plainly" </li><li>Laboring In My Books": Thomas Connary's Book Enhancements</li><li>Enhancing "the Blank Paper Surface Room" </li><li>Decorative Embellishment and Extra-Illustration </li><li>Newspaper and Magazine Clippings </li><li>Diary and Miscellaneous Records </li><li>Prayers and Religious Assertions </li><li>Planning Reading </li><li>A Reader's Responses </li><li>The Autonomous Reader </li><li>Epiphany: The Lamp </li><li>Redemptive Reading In The Connary Household </li><li>Domestic Reading and the Presence of the Book </li><li>The Social Annotator </li><li>Heavenly Books </li><li>"Putting Books to Work": A Culture of Redemptive Reading </li><li>Book Signing </li><li>"The Pen and the Press Blest Alliance Combined!": Thomas Connary in Print </li><li>Epiphany: The Road To Lancaster </li><li>The Farmer's Treasure: Thomas Connary Reading St. Francis Of Sales And Julian Of Norwich </li><li>Reading the Classics </li><li>The Books of "Mother Juliana" and "Our Saint Francis" </li><li>On Being Elsewhere: Inscribing Longing and Transcendence in the Spiritual Conferences of St. Francis of Sales </li><li>The Spiritual Epiphany </li><li>Reading Julian </li><li>In Dialogue with Julian </li><li>Finding Comfort in Julian: Reflections on Incorporation and Salvation </li><li>"The Social Joys of Heaven" and the Problem of Contention </li><li>Epiphany: "No Priest Or Bishop In This Church But Himself Alone" </li><li>Book Keeping, Longing, And Besetment </li><li>In a Room of His Own: Book Enhancement and Besetment </li><li>"We Must Never Be Too Full of Words": Preaching in Stratford </li><li>Madness in the Books </li><li>Vessels of Nostalgia </li><li>Peace and Communality</li></ul>
PB - Penn State University Press
PP - University Park, PA
PY - 2015
SN - 9780271064048
EP - 228 pp.
TI - Books and Religious Devotion: The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England
ER -