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Author Westphall, Allan F., author.

Title Books and religious devotion : the redemptive reading of an Irishman in nineteenth-century New England / Allan F. Westphall.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Connary, Thomas, 1814-1899 -- Library.
Connary, Thomas, 1814-1899.
Books and reading -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Books and reading -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Marginalia -- New England -- History -- 19th century.
Marginalia.
New England.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Books and reading -- New England -- History -- 19th century.
Books and reading.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Westphall, Allan F. Books and religious devotion. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014] (DLC) 2014009572
ISBN 9780271065106 (electronic book)
0271065109 (electronic book)
9780271064048 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0271064048