Pt. 1. The "Historical Situation" of Romanticism. Ch. 1. Specificity after Structuralism: Dating the "Return to History" Ch. 2. An Art of the State: Historicism and the Measures of Uneven Development. Ch. 3. Representing Culture, Romanticizing Contradiction: The Politics of Literary Exemplarity. Ch. 4. Altering the Case: The Invention of the Historical Situation -- Pt. 2. Reading England in 1819. Ch. 5. Reopening the Case of Scott. Ch. 6. Byron's Causes: The Moral Mechanics of Don Juan. Ch. 7. An "1819 Temper": Keats and the History of Psyche. Ch. 8. Concerning the Influence of America on the Mind: Western Settlements, "English Writers," and the Case of U.S. Culture. Ch. 9. The Case of "The Case of Shelley" Ch. 10. History's Lyre: The "West Wind" and the Poet's Work