Background
Deane, Seamus Francis was born on February 9, 1940 in Derry, Ireland. Son of Frank and Winifred (Doherty) Deane.
(Seamus Deane, one of Ireland's most important critics, as...)
Seamus Deane, one of Ireland's most important critics, assesses here the place of literature in "a colonial or neo-colonial culture like ours, where the naming of the territory has always been ... a politically charged act." The force of Deane's A Short History of Irish Literature derives precisely from his naming of the territory. With insight, erudition, and a razor-keen style, he locates Irish writers within the island's traumatic history. His aim is to show how literature has been inescapably allied with historical interpretation and with political allegiance.
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From the jacketflap: Here is a book that combines scholarship of exceptional range and depth with the power to persuade us to read authors we have forgotten or neglected, and to re-read sympathetically those we have insensitively undervalued or dismissed. From the earliest Gaelic poetry to Seamus Heaney and John Montague, from O Bruadair to O'Casey, Professor Deane is an admirable guide. He combines the clarity of the critic with the sensitivity of the poet, remarkably providing refreshing and provocative insights into writers we thought we knew and valued, and resurrecting those who have suffered the eclipse of fashion. All the writing is seen in the context of its period, and its political and cultural environment.
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This intriguing collection of essays is dominated by the figure of Edmund Burke and by accounts of the ways in which he and some of those he influenced understood the revolutionary changes that produced the modern world. The issues of liberty and empire, faction and revolution, universality, equality, authority, sectarian vice and democratic virtue are central here. Dominating them all is the question of how traditional feeling and affection can be retained within the revolutionary and colonial worlds that emerged at the close of the eighteenth century. The answers to these questions emerge from the different interpretations of the American and French Revolutions that were to be so influential for generations after Burke. In addition, he posed the colonial question in Ireland before it was posed more generally. Was liberty compatible with colonial rule? Ultimately, Burke secured his position by his condemnation of colonial as well as revolutionary violence. But in the works of Burke’s contemporaries, especially deTocqueville and Acton, colonial atrocity is condoned or supported while revolutionary violence is condemned out of hand. This, it is argued here, is constitutive of the European anti-revolutionary position which Burke helped to create but to which he nevertheless remains alien.
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writer English language educator
Deane, Seamus Francis was born on February 9, 1940 in Derry, Ireland. Son of Frank and Winifred (Doherty) Deane.
He attended Saint Columb"s College in Derry, where he befriended fellow-student Seamus Heaney, Queen"s University Belfast (Bachelor and Master of Arts) and Pembroke College, Cambridge University (Doctor of Philosophy).
Visiting Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson lecturer, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1966-1967; visiting lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-1968; lecturer in modern English, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 1968-1977; senior lecturer English, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 1978-1980; Professor of English, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 1980-1993; Keough professor Irish studies, U. Notre Dame, since 1993. Visiting professor U. Notre Dame, Indiana, University of California, Berkeley, 1977-1978, U. Washington, Seattle, 1987, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1988. Director FieldDay Theatre Public Company, since 1981.
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He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company.
Married Marion Frances Treacy, August 19, 1963. Children: Conor, Ciaran, Emer, Cormac.