Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Sign of History: Kant and Lyotard, Wordsworth
1. "As if" HistoryKant, Then and Now
2. Naming History Wordsworth
Part II. Bordering the Political: Kleist
3. Legal Matter: Der zerbrochne Krug
4. Borders, Crossing: Die Hermannsschlacht
Part III. The Debts of History: Shelley and Yeats
5. Crossing Culture: The Last Man
6. A Specular Nation: Yeats's Myth of the Irish
Threats, Responses: An Afterword
Notes
Index