Reclaiming myths of power: women writers and the Victorian spiritual crisis

Introduction : Reclaiming the word

Florence Nightingale's revisionist theology : "that woman will be the saviour of her race"

Radical protestantism versus privileged hermeneutics : the religion and romance of Brontë's spirituality

To "stand with Christ against the world" : Gaskell's sentimental social agenda

The "hidden heroism" of "social sympathy" : George Eliot's ethic of humanity

Afterword : Women writers and the Victorian spiritual crisis.