ROMANTIC NATIONALISM: HISTORY AND ILLUSION IN IRELAND
Dr David Dwan
Associate Professor; Tutorial Fellow, Hertford College
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 – 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, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Martin Heidegger, Wyndham Lewis and Virginia Woolf. My most recent monograph - Liberty, Equality and Humbug: Orwell's Political Ideals - was published by Oxford University Press in 2018.
Publications:
—Liberty, Equality and Humbug: Orwell’s Political Ideals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
—‘Romantic Nationalism: History and Illusion in Ireland’, Modern Intellectual History, 14.3 (2017): 717-45
—‘Young Ireland to Yeats’ in The Princeton History of Modern Ireland, ed. Richard Bourke and Ian McBride (Princeton, 2016), 217-35
—‘The Problem of Romanticism in Wyndham Lewis’, Essays in Criticism, 65.2 (2015): 163-86
—‘Modernism and Rousseau’, Textual Practice, 27.4 (2013): 537-63
—‘Orwell’s Paradox: Equality in Animal Farm’, ELH, 79.3 (2012): 655-83
—ed. (with Chris Insole), The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
—‘Burke and Utility’ in The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 131-44
—‘Edmund Burke and the Emotions’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 72.4 (2011): 571-93
—‘Truth and Freedom in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four’, Philosophy and Literature, 34.2 (2010): 381-93
—‘Yeats’s Thought’ in Visions and Revisions: W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2010), 109-26
—Woolf, Scepticism and Manners’, Textual Practice, 22.2 (2008): 249-68
—The Great Community: Culture and Nationalism in Ireland (Dublin: Field Day, 2008)
—‘Civic Virtue in the Modern World: The Politics of Young Ireland’, Irish Political Studies, 22.1 (2007): 35-60
—‘Abstract Hatred: Yeats and the Counter-Revolutionary Paradigm’, Literature and History, 15.1 (2006): 18-36
—‘Young Ireland and the Horde of Benthamy’ in Politics and Power in Victorian Ireland, ed. Roger Swift and Christine Kinealy (Dublin: Four Courts, 2006), 109-18
—‘Culture and Democracy in Ireland’, Irish Review, 32 (2004): 23-38
—‘That Ancient Sect: Yeats, Hegel, and the Possibility of Epic in Ireland’, Irish Studies Review, 12.2 (2004): 201-11
—‘Idle Talk: Ontology and Mass Communications in Heidegger’, New Formations, 51 (2003): 113-27
—‘Yeats, Heidegger and the Problem of Modern Subjectivism’, Paragraph, 25.1 (2002): 74-91
• Undergraduate: Literature in English, 1830-1910; Literature in English, 1900-Present; FHS Paper 5; Paper 6: Literature and Revolution
• Graduate: MSt, 1900-Present (C-Course: ‘Modernism and Philosophy’)
