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Stephen Cheeke is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. His previous books are Byron and Place: Literature, Translation, Nostalgia (2003) and Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis (2008).

- Introduction: 'Strange Worship'
- 1: The Religion of Art in the Nineteenth Century
- 2: Transfiguration: The Story of a Masterpiece
- 3: Browning and the Problem of Raphael
- 4: 'All Great Art is Praise': Ruskin's 'Fra Lippo Lippi'
- 5: 'The Queen of Sheba Crash': Ruskin's Conversions
- 6: What Did Rossetti Believe?
- 7: Walter Pater's Indifference
- Afterword: Idolatry
- Bibliography