Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Fiction as a Mirror of Culture -- Part I. Exposing the Divine: 1790s– 1850s -- i. Faltering Fathers and Devious Divines: Popular Images -- ii. Clerics in Contention: Church Images -- iii. Vulnerable Divines: Radical Images -- Part II. Discrediting the Divine: 1860s– 1920s -- iv. Compulsives and Accommodators: Popular Images (1) -- v. Con Men in Collars and Heroes of the Cloth: Popular Images (2) -- vi Activist Preachers and Their Detractors: Popular Images (3) -- vii. Champions of the Faith: Church Images -- viii. Foundering Divines: Radical Images (1) -- ix. Flawed Divines: Radical Images (2) -- Part III. The Legacy: 1930s– 2000s -- x. Fallen Divines: Some Contemporary Images -- Conclusion: The Legacy of the Displaced Divine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index