| List of Illustrations | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Harps Hung upon the Willow | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | The Bog Itself: Enlightenment Prospects and National Elegies | 37 |
| Ch. 2 | The End of an Auld Sang: Oral Tradition and Literary History | 67 |
| Ch. 3 | National Character, Nationalist Plots: National Tale and Historical Novel in the Age of Waverley, 1806-1830 | 128 |
| Ch. 4 | Coming Home: Imperial and Domestic Fiction, 1790-1815 | 161 |
| Ch. 5 | The Old Wives' Tale: The Fostering System as National and Imperial Education | 193 |
| Ch. 6 | The Abbotsford Guide to India: Romantic Fictions of Empire and the Narratives of Canadian Literature | 242 |
| Notes | 293 |
| Select Bibliography | 367 |
| Index | 411 |
