Dr David Dwan

My work explores the links between literature and its wider intellectual history – particularly moral and political philosophy – in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  I have a particular interest in Irish writing.  My first book – The Great Community (Field Day, 2008) – examined the evolution of cultural nationalism in Ireland from Edmund Burke to W. B. Yeats.  I edited (with Christopher Insole) The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke and have published essays on, amongst others, Rousseau, Heidegger and Woolf.  My most recent mongraph - Liberty, Equality and Humbug: Orwell's Political Ideals - will be published by Oxford University Press in 2018.