CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: The Victorian Book of Life -- ONE: The Implied Theology of Vanity Fair -- TWO: Charlotte Brontë's Shirley as a Novel of Religious Controversy -- THREE: "Gleams from a Brighter World": Charlotte Mary Yonge's Tractarian Poetics -- FOUR: "From St Paul to Pecksniff ": Trollope's Bertrams and Arnold's God -- FIVE: "Feeling's a Sort o' Knowledge": George Eliot's Religion of Humanity -- SIX: Thomas Hardy's Apocryphal Gospels -- SEVEN: Literature and Dogma: Mary Augusta Ward's Robert Elsmere and Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.