Introduction: Authorized Versions, Unauthorized Sexualities: The Victorian Woman Writer as Religious Consumer -- The Authorized Version in the Marketplace -- Consumer Christianity: Family Bibles and Family Values on the Installment Plan -- Closeting the Family Bible and the Family -- Family Bibles and Family Angels -- Consuming the Authorized Version -- Playing with Sacred Pages: Menstrual Superabundance in Villette and Dissenting Bible Commentary -- "A Bit of Her Flesh" Circumcision and "The Signification of the Phallus" in Daniel Deronda -- Victorian Schemes of the Apocalypse: Profits and Prophecy -- Conclusion: Philosophy and Philanthropy versus Buying and Selling -- British Family Bibles.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-198) and index.