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
2025
- 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
Burke, T., 28 Feb 2025, In: Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power. 13, p. 140-171
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2024
- PublishedReview: Jennifer MacLure, The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction
Burke, T., 2024, In: The Gaskell Journal. 38, p. 100-104
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2023
- PublishedReview: Angharad Eyre, Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century: Jane Eyre’s Missionary Sisters
Burke, T., 2023, In: The Gaskell Journal. 37, p. 77-81
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review - PublishedThe Secret Agent: Necropolitics, Democracy, and the Community without Qualification
Burke, T., Nov 2023, In: Victoriographies: A Journal of the Long Nineteenth Century. 13, 3, p. 277-297 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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
2025
- Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: Pre-Screening Q&A
Contributor to a pre-screening Q&A of Kubrick's Barry Lyndon with Professor Nathan Abrams.
27 Jan 2025
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2024
- William Godwin, Caleb Williams and St. Leon: Economy, Body, Community
14 May 2024
Links:
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker) - Introduction to film screening - The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (dir. R.W. Fassbinder)
An introduction to a screening of the film 'The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant' (1972), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Organised and invited by Undeb Bangor University LGBT+ Society
25 Apr 2024
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2023
- The French Revolution Controversy: From the Bastille to Bangor Cathedral
Shankland lectures are a series of lectures introducing the public to some of the rare objects in the Bangor University Library and Archives.
22 Nov 2023
Links:
- https://www.bangor.ac.uk/events/shankland-lecture-the-romantics-in-bangor-archives
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzHO-swHPJU
- British Association of Victorian Studies Conference 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)