Table of Contents

Abbreviations Introduction Part I: 1. Bodies and God: post-structuralist feminists return to the fold of spiritual materialism 2. Divine loss: Irigaray's erotics of a feminine fracture 3. Lacking/labor Part II: 4. Recollecting Charlotte Bronte 5. Working for God autoerotically: approaching the bridegroom without a(r)rival in Bronte's Villette 6. Recognizing George Eliot 7. At home with desire: the domestication of St. Theresa in Eliot's Middlemarch Postlude Notes Index.