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• W242204430 abstract "At a seminar on his work at NUI Maynooth in early 2003, Seamus Deane, in response to a question from Joe Cleary, suggested that he reckoned his most important intellectual influences to have been Edmund Burke and Theodor Adorno. This essay will try to triangulate Deane's position between these two very different thinkers, tracing their influences in his criticism and looking at ways in which their thought might intersect in his own. Seamus Deane is undoubtedly Ireland's premier critic. No other single figure, not even Denis Donoghue, has combined the same scholarship, critical acumen, and disciplinary influence as Deane, who can reasonably be described as having decisively shaped Irish literary studies over the last quarter-century. And yet Deane's critical work in itself has attracted relatively little sustained attention. Irish metacriticism still mostly takes place on the sidelines of conferences, in the nudge-and-wink at the bar, and in the scarcely different nudge-and-wink of book reviews. A handful of younger scholars, among whom Colin Graham, Richard Kirkland, and Gerry Smyth stand out for the intelligence and seriousness of their efforts, have in recent years begun to broach this topic. (1) But in comparison with the situation elsewhere in the Anglophone world, the study of Irish criticism is still in its infancy. This is all the more mystifying when one considers the combination of ambition and methodological and theoretical self-consciousness that has often characterized Deane's project. As Terry Eagleton puts it, reviewing Deane's 1995 Clarendon Lectures in English Literature, published as Strange Country, no other Irish critic can range as confidently and with such insight from Madame de Stael to Daniel Corkery. (2) I would go so far as to suggest that Deane is perhaps the only Irish critic to have a full-blown 'theory' of Irish literature. He produces a narrative, gapped and damaged by his own account, of Irish writing that has a founding and shaping moment in the late eighteenth century, and a continuity to the present day. Quite simply, no other Irish critic has that reach or vision. But Deane is not only ambitious: his criticism has also been innovative in terms of both method and function. This essay will argue that the book based on his doctoral dissertation, The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England 1789-1832 is foundational in terms of Deane's oeuvre, though it was published only in 1988. In this book can be found discussions of Burke, of revolution, of intellectuals, of what Edward Said famously called 'travelling theory', all of which can be seen to be formative of a great deal of Deane's other work. Not merely this, but The French Revolution is unusual in that it is mostly a study of the political philosophy of English Romantic writers and of their reception of French revolutionary political thought. Already, in this work, Deane was bringing literature and political theory together in a way that is rare in English studies. This essay will also explore the manner in which Deane has been influenced by Theodor Adorno in his pursuit of these projects. Deane came to intellectual maturity in the 1960s, at a time when, in Ireland and Britain, Leavisism and the American New Criticism were still the predominant academic forms of literary investigation. New theories of literature and culture were nevertheless in the air: French structuralism and post-structuralism began their conquest of American academia, one could say, with the famous Johns Hopkins conference of 1966. The rise of the New Left in England and America led to renewed interest in the intellectual heritage of Western Marxism: Georg Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School thinkers: Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Friedrich Pollock, and Leo Lowenthal. To a critic like Deane, these will have seemed exciting new intellectual and analytical resources with which to step beyond the institutional sclerosis of Anglo-American criticism. …" @default.
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