TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westphall,Allan F.
TI  - Books and Religious Devotion: The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England 
T2  - Penn State Series in the History of the Book
SN  - 9780271065106
AV  - Z1003.3.N4 W47 2014
U1  - 028/.8097409/034 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - New England
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Marginalia
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - In Books and Religious Devotion, Allan Westphall presents a study of the book-collecting habits and annotation practices of Thomas Connary, an Irish immigrant farmer who lived in New Hampshire in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Connary led a pious life that revolved around the use, annotation, and sharing of religious books. His surviving annotated volumes provide a revealing glimpse into the utility of books for a common reader-and they show how one remarkable, eccentric reader turned religious books into near icons. Through a careful excavation of book adaptations and enhancements, Westphall gives us insight into the range of opportunities provided by the material book for recording and communicating Connary's religious fervor. The study also investigates the broader nineteenth-century cultural setting, in which books are seen as testimonies of personal faith and come to function as instruments of social interaction in both domestic and public spheres. Underlying Connary's many and varied interactions with books is his belief that working in books, as physical objects, can be a devout exercise instrumental in human salvation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271065106?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271065106
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271065106/original
ER  -