Introduction Part I The Prophetic as a Mode of Self-fashioning Chapter 1 The Prelude:Prophetic Aspirations Revisited Chapter 2 Wordsworth's Self-fashioning and the Prophetic:Personal Choice,Knowledge Economy and Contemporary Millennialism Chapter 3 qhe Prophetic and Anxieties on Course to Self-fashioning Part II The Prophetic as a Mode ofWriting Chapter 4 Lyrical Ballads:Rupture and Continuity in Human Historv Chapter 5 In the Name of the Nation:Wordsworth's National Concerns and the Prophetic Chapter 6 History,Morality and the Apotheosis of the Animal:The White Doe ofRy~tone Encoded in the Prophetic Chapter 7 Peter Bell:Moral Persuasion Gone Wrong Conclusion Bibliography