Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Literature and the State in Post-Napoleonic Britain 1
5. 1. Fragment Poems and Fragment Nations: The Aesthetics of Ireland in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Late Work 21
6. 2. Wordsworth’s Establishment Poetics 54
7. 3. Speaking for the Law: State Agency in Scott’s Novels 88
8. 4. A Nation Without Nationalism: The Reorganization of Feeling in Austen’s Persuasion 116
9. 5. De Quincey’s Imperial Systems 140
10. Notes 165
11. Index 199