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Valente, Joseph Valente, Joseph Esty, Joshua Mahaffey, Vicki Hansen, James A. Goodlad, Lauren Boynton, T.J. 2012-02-01T00:46:58Z 2014-02-01T11:00:27Z 2012-02-01T00:46:58Z 2011-12 My dissertation examines the history of the ethnological theory of Celticism, tracing its mediation of a broad range of concerns relative to the economic dimension of the colonial relationship between England and Ireland from 1865 until 1954. I argue that by propagating a conception of the Irish subject as biologically resistant to capitalism and given to aesthetic creativity, Celticism crucially shaped the colonial definition of the Irish by the British, the decolonizing and postcolonial Irish responses to this definition, and the diverse literary visions of Irishness produced by British and Irish authors. Though Irish Studies critics routinely emphasize the role of Celticism within fin-de-siecle Irish nationalism, and though they often note its anti-capitalist charge, a sustained, genealogical account of Celticism’s career as a vehicle for the critique of capitalism has yet to emerge. Moreover, no existing study has addressed Celticism’s manifestations in British literature. Erecting such an account from texts of both Irish and British provenance, I redefine the history of Celticism as a transnational project devoted to interrogating and imagining alternatives to the reified ontological condition of capitalist modernity. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2011-09-13T22:16:32Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 BOYNTON_TOM.pdf: 2133737 bytes, checksum: abfb56ebb770b780248b57ba7c5b5bad (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-02-01T00:46:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 BOYNTON_TOM.pdf: 2133815 bytes, checksum: 3469a4ce960badd11a1e4f925a5c3eba (MD5) license.txt: 4060 bytes, checksum: f36761329e667bdfa38ed98085a372b2 (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2012-02-01T00:50:25Z Item is restricted until 2014-02-01T00:50:07Z Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2014-02-01T11:00:27Z Item was in collections: Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois (ID: 204) Dissertations and Theses - English (ID: 447) No. of bitstreams: 3 BOYNTON_TOM.pdf: 2133815 bytes, checksum: 3469a4ce960badd11a1e4f925a5c3eba (MD5) license.txt: 4060 bytes, checksum: f36761329e667bdfa38ed98085a372b2 (MD5) BOYNTON_TOM.pdf.txt: 1044972 bytes, checksum: 0d7ae27a590c44f8c5b2866bd0d0224e (MD5) Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2014-02-01T11:00:27Z http://hdl.handle.net/2142/29452 en Copyright 2011 TJ Boynton Celticism Capitalism British Literature Irish Literature The despotism of fact: Celticism and the transnational critique of capitalism in England and Ireland, 1865-1954 English 1499 English 0311 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:English -UIUC 10KS0311PHD