Dr Tristan Burke
Contact Info
Email: tristan.burke@bangor.ac.uk
Overview
My work focuses on the literature of the long-nineteenth century, with particular interests in the politics of the novel form, questions of subjectivity and community, and critical theory approaches. My first book, Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism: Heroes of Their Own Lives? (forthcoming with Routledge) describes the production of a ‘heroic’ bourgeois subjectivity in the novel, under the distinctly unheroic conditions of high capitalism, derived from Byronic and Napoleonic models. My current research considers the relationships between political violence, terrorism, and community after the French Revolution in the nineteenth-century novel.
Education / academic qualifications
- 2017 - PhD , Mutations of Heroism in Nineteenth-Century Modernity
Research outputs (2)
- Published
Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism: Heroes of Their Own Lives?
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
From terror to terrorism in Bleak House: Writing the event, representing the people
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prof. activities and awards (3)
‘Terror made me cruel’: Violence, Community and Space in Wuthering Heights
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
The Gaskell Journal (Journal)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
‘Proletarian Nights and Communal Luxury: Utopian Dreams in Henry James’s The Princess Cassamassima’
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation