Melissa Valiska Gregory (essay date winter 2000)
SOURCE: Gregory, Melissa Valiska. “Robert Browning and the Lure of the Violent Lyric Voice: Domestic Violence and the Dramatic Monologue.” Victorian Poetry 38, no. 4 (winter 2000): 491-510.
[In the following essay, Gregory maintains that The Ring and the Book provides insight to the problem of domestic violence in the Victorian period.]
Although the study of Victorian poetry may not be teetering on the brink of extinction, contemporary literary scholars have tended to work through their...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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