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About Tristan Burke
I am a university educator and published literary critic working on the intersection of 19th century literature, history and critical theory.
My monograph, Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism: Heroes of Their Own Lives? (London: Routledge, 2022), reads the nineteenth-century novel in an international context and as part of a continuum with the Romantic period. I argue that new, liberal democratic forms of bourgeois subjectivity in the nineteenth-century novel harness a rhetoric of heroism derived from the cultural legacies of Byron and Napoleon in an attempt to legitimate the ‘unheroic’ sovereignty of the ascendant bourgeoisie.
More recently, I have been working on the representation of violence, community and political sovereignty in literature of the long nineteenth-century, charting the changing meanings of ‘terrorism’ across the period, and drawing on new theoretical work on sovereignty and political community derived from contemporary philosophy, especially the work of Judith Butler, Achille Mbembe and Jacques Ranciere.
I am an active creative practitioner and as well as an academic I write creatively and am involved in experimental theatre practice. I'm also an enthusiastic cinephile and convene a Deleuze reading group.
NBN Episodes hosted by Tristan:
August 2, 2025
Nonbinary Jane Austen
In Nonbinary Jane Austen, Chris Washington theorizes how Jane Austen envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that we c…