All Outputs (2)

Vatican ceremonies and tourist culture in nineteenth-century British travelogues (2010)
Book Chapter
Martens, B. (2010). Vatican ceremonies and tourist culture in nineteenth-century British travelogues. In M. Hollington, C. Waters, & J. Jordan (Eds.), Imagining Italy: Victorian Writers and Travellers (14-34). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press

Nineteenth-century British tourists who attended Catholic ceremonies in Italy were more than mere passive observers. Their accounts of Holy Week in the Vatican reveal a tension between, on the one hand, British tourists’ denigration of Catholic ritua... Read More about Vatican ceremonies and tourist culture in nineteenth-century British travelogues.

Death as spectacle: the Paris morgue in Dickens and Browning (2008)
Book Chapter
Martens, B. (2008). Death as spectacle: the Paris morgue in Dickens and Browning. In S. Friedman, E. Guiliano, A. Humpherys, N. McKnight, & M. Timko (Eds.), Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction (223-248). New York: Ams Press, Inc

As an object of macabre fascination, the Paris morgue is without parallel in the Victorian imagination. This article explores the representation of visits to the morgue in Dickens’s Uncommercial Traveller and in Browning’s dramatic monologue “Apparen... Read More about Death as spectacle: the Paris morgue in Dickens and Browning.