Books and Religious Devotion : The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England.

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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