| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: Locating English Identity | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | The House of Memory: John Ruskin and the Architecture of Englishness | 41 |
| Ch. 2 | "British to the Backbone": On Imperial Subject-Fashioning | 75 |
| Ch. 3 | The Path from War to Friendship: E.M. Forster's Mutiny Pilgrimage | 101 |
| Ch. 4 | Put a Little English on It: C.L.R. James and England's Field of Play | 135 |
| Ch. 5 | Among the Ruins: Topographies of Postimperial Melancholy | 164 |
| Ch. 6 | The Riot of Englishness: Migrancy, Nomadism, and the Redemption of the Nation | 190 |
| Afterword: Something Rich and Strange | 219 |
| Notes | 225 |
| Index | 245 |