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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface: A Discovery and Serendipitous Journeys

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

“I Am Here”

Studying Used Books: The Plan of the Argument

Reading

Paratext

Obsession

Epiphany

1 IRISH AMERICAN PRINT CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: A PRIVATE LIBRARY

A Collector and Reader

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

Periodicals and Newspapers

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