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Preface: A Discovery and Serendipitous Journeys
Studying Used Books: The Plan of the Argument
1 IRISH AMERICAN PRINT CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: A PRIVATE LIBRARY
F. Lewis [Louis of Granada], The Sinner’s Guide
Thomas H. Kinane, The Dove of the Tabernacle
James Balmes, Fundamental Philosophy
George Foxcroft Haskins, Travels in England, France, Italy, and Ireland
Reading for Guidance and Edification: “Book Keeping” in the Connary Household
EPIPHANY: “SEEING VERY PLAINLY”
2 “LABORING IN MY BOOKS”: THOMAS CONNARY’S BOOK ENHANCEMENTS
Enhancing “the Blank Paper Surface Room”
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
The Books of “Mother Juliana” and “Our Saint Francis”
On Being Elsewhere: Inscribing Longing and Transcendence in the Spiritual Conferences of St. Francis of Sales
The Spiritual Epiphany
Reading Julian
In Dialogue with Julian
Finding Comfort in Julian: Reflections on Incorporation and Salvation
“The Social Joys of Heaven” and the Problem of Contention
EPIPHANY: “NO PRIEST OR BISHOP IN THIS CHURCH BUT HIMSELF ALONE”
5 BOOK KEEPING, LONGING, AND BESETMENT
In a Room of His Own: Book Enhancement and Besetment
“We Must Never Be Too Full of Words”: Preaching in Stratford
Madness in the Books
Vessels of Nostalgia
Peace and Communality
EPILOGUE: ROME UNVISITED
Appendix: The Contents of Thomas Connary’s Library
Notes
Bibliography
Index
