Dr Tristan Burke
Lecturer in English Literature (School of Languages, Literatures, Linguistics and Media)
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.
Additional Contact Information
Email: tristan.burke@bangor.ac.uk
Qualifications
- PhD: Mutations of Heroism in Nineteenth-Century Modernity
University of Manchester, 2017
Publications
2021
- PublishedByronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism: Heroes of Their Own Lives?
Burke, T., 30 Nov 2021, Routledge. (Among the Victorians and Modernists)
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
2020
- PublishedFrom terror to terrorism in Bleak House: Writing the event, representing the people
Burke, T., 1 Mar 2020, In: The London Journal. 45, 1, p. 17-38
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
2023
- ‘Terror made me cruel’: Violence, Community and Space in Wuthering Heights
Presented at the British Association of Victorian Studies annual conference, University of Surrey, 2023
1 Sep 2023
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - The Gaskell Journal (Journal)
Reviews Editor
1 May 2023 →
Links:
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member)
2022
- ‘Proletarian Nights and Communal Luxury: Utopian Dreams in Henry James’s The Princess Cassamassima’
1 Sep 2022
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)