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.