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      BOOKS AND RELIGIOUS DEVOTION

      ALLAN F. WESTPHALL

      BOOKS

      AND

      RELIGIOUS

      DEVOTION

      THE

      REDEMPTIVE READING

      OF AN

      IRISHMAN IN

      NINETEENTH-CENTURY

      NEW ENGLAND

      THE PENNYSLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

      UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Westphall, Allan F., author.

      Books and religious devotion : the redemptive reading of an Irishman in nineteenth-century New England /

      Allan F. Westphall.

      p. cm — (The Penn State series in the history of the book)

      Summary: “Examines the book collection of Thomas Connary, a nineteenth-century Irish Catholic New England farmer, to reconstruct how Connary read and annotated his books. Reveals how books can structure a life of devotion and social participation, and presents an authentic, holistic view of one reader’s interior life”—Provided by publisher.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-271-06404-8 (cloth : alk. paper)

      1. Books and reading—New England—History—19th century. 2. Marginalia—New England—History—19th century. 3. Connary, Thomas, 1814–1899—Library. 4. Books and reading—Religious aspects—Christianity.

      I. Title. II. Series: Penn State series in the history of the book.

      Z1003.3.N4W47 2014

      028’.8097409’034—dc23

      2014009572

      Copyright © 2014

      The Pennsylvania State University

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      Published by

      The Pennsylvania State University Press,

      University Park, PA 16802–1003

      The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses.

      It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed

      Library Material, ANSI Z39.48–1992.

      This book is printed on paper that contains 30% post-consumer waste.

      Frontispiece: Detail of figure 6.

      CONTENTS

       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

       3 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

       4 THE FARMER’S TREASURE: THOMAS CONNARY READING ST. FRANCIS OF SALES AND JULIAN OF NORWICH

       Reading the Classics

      

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