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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Parts of chapters 2 and 4 have appeared as articles, and I want to thank the journal editors for allowing me to use this material. “’Laboring in my Books’: A Religious Reader in Nineteenth Century New Hampshire” appeared in Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 13, no. 2 (2012): 185–204; “’I am here’: Reading Julian of Norwich in Nineteenth Century New England” appeared in The Mediaeval Journal 3, no. 2 (2013): 137–68.

I am most grateful to two anonymous readers for the Pennsylvania State University Press for particularly generous comments and guidance on the first draft of this book. Thanks also to colleagues at the Press for their hard work and faith in this project—James L. W. West III, Patrick Alexander, Laura Reed-Morrisson, and Robert Turchick.

Some parts of this material have been presented at seminars and colloquia in the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh, and in the Schools of English at the Queen’s University of Belfast and the University of St. Andrews. I have benefited greatly from discussions with audiences in these places.

Finally, I thank my family—Katie Ruan, Lone Westphall, and Bent Westphall—for their unfailing help and encouragement.