Romantic imperialism: universal empire and the culture of modernity

Introduction: Universal Empire

Home imperial: Wordsworth's London and the spot of time

Wordsworth and the image of Nature

Waverley and the cultural politics of dispossession

Domesticating exoticism: transformations of Britain's Orient, 1785-1835

Beyond the realm of dreams: Bryon, Shelley, and the East

William Blake and the Universal Empire

Conclusions.