Introduction: Biblical Interpretation, Victorian Writers, and Wisdom Literature
Wisdom's Call: Poetic Dialogue and the Echoes of Job in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's A Drama of Exile
Wisdom's Footsteps: Heuristic Pathways and Proverbial Aphorisms in George MacDonald's Phantastes
Wisdom's Turn: Historical Recovery, Narrative Possibility, and the Direction of Biblical Parables in George Eliot's Romola
Wisdom's Reach: Mythmaking, Incarnational Poetics, and Interpretive Limits in John Ruskin's The Queen of the Air
Wisdom's Breath: Revelation, Concealment, and the Energy of Ecclesiastes in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm.