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From the execution ballad to the dramatic monologue: Criminal confession reconfigured (2023)
Journal Article
Martens, B. (in press). From the execution ballad to the dramatic monologue: Criminal confession reconfigured. Victorian Poetry, 62(1),

Victorian dramatic monologues about murder, including such prominent examples as Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover,” “My Last Duchess,” and The Ring and the Book, as well as Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “A Last Confession,” often rely upon readers’ fa... Read More about From the execution ballad to the dramatic monologue: Criminal confession reconfigured.

British satirical poems and cartoons about Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: Deconstructing authenticity and aura (2021)
Journal Article
Martens, B. (2021). British satirical poems and cartoons about Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: Deconstructing authenticity and aura. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 43(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2021.1863109

This article draws on opposing cultural concepts of authenticity and imitation, combined with Walter Benjamin’s notion of the aura, to examine the self-promotion of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as successor of Napoleon I. The article confronts Louis-Napo... Read More about British satirical poems and cartoons about Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: Deconstructing authenticity and aura.

Dramatic monologue, detective fiction and the search for meaning (2011)
Journal Article
Martens, B. (2011). Dramatic monologue, detective fiction and the search for meaning. Nineteenth-Century Literature, 66(2), 195-218

This essay compares the genres of the dramatic monologue and detective fiction in terms of their contemporaneous development and respective reading processes. Drawing on narratological categories, it examines the emphasis in both genres on the withho... Read More about Dramatic monologue, detective fiction and the search for meaning.

Public image and private self in Rousseau and Browning (2004)
Journal Article
Martens, B. (2004). Public image and private self in Rousseau and Browning. Browning Society Notes, 29, 30-41

This article examines how Browning used Rousseau’s confessional aesthetics as a point of reference when defining his own poetics.