Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-169) and index.
Introduction -- How a capitalist converts: Dickens's theology and the realism of Dombey and son -- "Must I render an account?": the ethics of genre in Charlotte Brontë's Villette -- Gambling on conversion: the problem of relativism in Daniel Deronda -- To sum up, to judge: the aesthetics of truth in Heart of darkness -- The afterlife of Oscar Wilde's conversion, or, what self-consciously literary college students say on Facebook