Contents:
  • Awful disclosures: the escaped nun's tale
  • The dead father and the rule of religion: the Oxford movement
  • The foreign father and the sons of the sires: nativist novels of the 1850s
  • Mariolatry, imperial motherhood, and manhood
  • Under which lord? Ritualism, marriage, and the law
  • Black robes, white veils, and foregone conclusions: Disraeli, Howells, and James
  • Reliquaries.