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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.

'Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!': Robert Browning's portrayal of contemporary Italians (2007)
Journal Article
Martens, B. (2007). 'Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!': Robert Browning's portrayal of contemporary Italians

Hardly shall I tell my joys and sorrows: Robert Browning's engagement with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetics (2005)
Journal Article
Martens, B. (2005). Hardly shall I tell my joys and sorrows: Robert Browning's engagement with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetics. https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2005.0019

The poet and Christ: Robert Browning's self-conceptualization through biblical typology revisited (2003)
Journal Article
Martens, B. (2003). The poet and Christ: Robert Browning's self-conceptualization through biblical typology revisited