Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Opening the Fan of Time -- 3 Paganism Revived? -- 4 Stories of Today -- 5 The Unmanned Fertility Figure -- 6 Killing the God -- 7 A Bizarre Farewell to Fiction? -- Bibliography -- Index