Books and Religious Devotion: The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England

＂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 anauthentic, holistic view of one reader’s interior life＂--Provided by publisher.