Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION - Literature and the State in Post-Napoleonic Britain -- ONE - Fragment Poems and Fragment Nations -- Organic Form and the State -- Administering Culture: The State Church -- Defining the "more important part" -- National Parts and Wholes: The Irish Problem -- Poetic and Social Fragments -- Proliferating Symbols and National Identity -- TWO - Wordsworth's Establishment Poetics -- Modeling Governmentality: Wordsworth's Anglican Church -- Poetic Conversions -- Wordsworth's National Vision -- "Between license and slavish order": Liberty and Authority in the State Church -- The Work of Rituals -- Pastors, Poets, and the Possibilities of State Agency -- THREE - Speaking for the Law -- The Lawyers and the Novel -- Pastoral Leadership: Bending the Law in Redgauntlet -- Ministering the Law -- Novels, Ballads, and Legal Authority -- FOUR - A Nation Without Nationalism -- A Novel Navy -- Gender, Professions, and Social Structure -- Romancing a Naval Nation -- Austen's State, Austen's Romanticism -- FIVE - De Quincey's Imperial Systems -- Notes -- Index.