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 (6)
- Published
‘In forests of eternal death […] I bring forth from my teeming bosom myriads of flames’: The Origin of Necropolitics and Visions of Resistance in William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and the Continental Prophecies
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Review: Jennifer MacLure, The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
- Published
The Secret Agent: Necropolitics, Democracy, and the Community without Qualification
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prof. activities and awards (7)
Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: Pre-Screening Q&A
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
William Godwin, Caleb Williams and St. Leon: Economy, Body, Community
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Introduction to film screening - The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (dir. R.W. Fassbinder)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk