| Roads to Rome |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
| INTRODUCTION |
 | 1 HISTORY: THE NEW AND OLD WORLDS |
| • | One Protestant Meditations on History and "Popery" |
| • | Two "The Moral Map of the World" American Tourists and Underground Rome |
 | Three The American Terrain of W. H. Prescott and Francis Parkman |
| • | Coda to Part 1 |
| 2 AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM AND ITS CAPTIVITIES |
| • | Four Rome and Her Indians |
| • | Five Nativism and Its Enslavements |
| • | Six Sentimental Capture The Cruel Convent and Family Love |
| • | Seven Two "Escaped Nuns" Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk |
| • | Eight The Inquisitional Enclosures of Poe and Melville |
| • | Nine Competing Interiors The Church and Its Protestant Voyeurs |
| 3 CONVERSION AND ITS FICTIONS |
| • | Ten The "Attraction of Repulsion" |
| • | Eleven The Protestant Minister and His Priestly Influence |
| • | Twelve The Bodily Gaze of Protestantism |
| • | Thirteen The Hawthornian Confessional |
| • | Coda to Part 3 |
| 4 FOUR CONVERTS |
| • | Fourteen Elizabeth Seton: The Sacred Workings of Contagion |
| • | Fifteen Sophia Ripley: Rewriting the Stony Heart |
| • | Sixteen Isaac Hecker: The Form of the Missionary Body |
| • | Seventeen Orestes Brownson: The Return to Conspiracy |
| • | Conclusion: "Heaps of Human Bones" |
| Notes |
| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| INDEX |