1st Edition
Byronism, Napoleonism, and Nineteenth-Century Realism Heroes of Their Own Lives?
Chapter One: Byronism, Revolution and the Birth of Bourgeois Individualism: Heroism in Pushkin and Lermontov
Chapter Two: David Copperfield: Byronic heroism and bourgeois privacy
Chapter Three: ‘I can pick the right uniform for my century’: Napoleonic heroism and regimes of representation in Stendhal’s The Red and the Black
Chapter Four: Napoleon at Vanity Fair: Costumes of Exiled Heroism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Tristan Donal Burke studied at the University of Manchester, and his thesis, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the University of Manchester’s President’s Doctoral Scholarship, was entitled 'Mutations of Heroism in Nineteenth-Century Modernity.' He is currently Teaching Fellow in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. He recently published on Dickens’s Bleak House and political violence in The London Journal, and his work with the Everyday Analysis Collective is published by Zer0 Books.
