Flitter examines those narratives within the intellectual parameters that defined them, probing the conceptual strategies by which writers represented history.

Acknowledgements, Introduction: The Changeful History of Spanish Romanticism, 1 The Meaning of the Mediaeval Revival, 2 'Elementary' Historiography: Spanish Reactions to Guizot, 3 'Ideal Eternal History':Vico's Providential Design, 4 Exorcising the Revolutionary Demon, 5 Reading Spain's Recent Past, 6 Ideology and Aesthetics: The Uses of Literary History, Conclusions: History Singular and Plural, Bibliography, Index