Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-283) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Dim views of the pastoral relationship -- The bellwether ; or, What the traveler saw -- Gone astray ; or, What the public feared -- Mending fences ; or, What the public saw -- Paradoxical pastors ; or, What the novelist imagined -- Forbidden and forgotten territory ; or, Where the pastor feared to tread -- The unsteady shepherd ; or, What the pastor experienced -- Sheep without a shepherd ; or, What women experienced -- Epilogue: Separating the ewes from the rams; or, Seeing through a new lens.