Books and Religious Devotion
Subtitle: The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780271064048
Subjects: Books and reading; Marginalia; New england, biography
Description: "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.