Dr Tristan Burke
Lecturer in English Literature
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 (4)
- Published
The Secret Agent: Necropolitics, Democracy, and the Community without Qualification
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Review: Angharad Eyre, Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century: Jane Eyre’s Missionary Sisters
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
- Published
Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism: Heroes of Their Own Lives?
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Prof. activities and awards (4)
The French Revolution Controversy: From the Bastille to Bangor Cathedral
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
British Association of Victorian Studies Conference 2023
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
The Gaskell Journal (Journal)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity