Westphall, Allan F. <br/><br/>
Books and Religious Devotion :  The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (247 pages) 
 - Penn State Series in the History of the Book Series .
 - Penn State Series in the History of the Book Series .
<br/><br/>COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: A Discovery and Serendipitous Journeys -- Notes to Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: Irish American Print Culture in the Nineteenth Century: A Private Library -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- EPIPHANY: "Seeing Very Plainly" -- Notes to Epiphany: "Seeing Very Plainly" -- Chapter 2: "Laboring in My Books": Thomas Connary's Book Enhancements -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- EPIPHANY: The Lamp -- Notes to Epiphany: The Lamp -- Chapter 3: Redemptive Reading in the Connary Household -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- EPIPHANY: The Road to Lancaster -- Chapter 4: The Farmer's Treasure: Thomas Connary Reading St. Francis of Sales and Julian of Norwich -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- EPIPHANY: "No Priest or Bishop in this Church but Himself Alone" -- Notes to Epiphany: "No Priest or Bishop in This Church but Himself Alone" -- Chapter 5: Book Keeping, Longing, and Besetment -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Epilogue: Rome Unvisited -- Notes to Epilogue -- Appendix: The Contents of Thomas Connary's Library -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Series Page -- COVER Back. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271065120 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Connary, Thomas,-1814-1899-Library.<br/>Books and reading-New England-History-19th century.<br/>Marginalia-New England-History-19th century.<br/>Books and reading-Religious aspects-Christianity.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Z1003.3.N4  / .W478 2014