Dramatic Monologue

The dramatic monologue is traditionally associated with Victorian poets suchas Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson and is generally considered to havedisappeare... » 

The dramatic monologue is traditionally associated with Victorian poets suchas Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson and is generally considered to havedisappeared with the onset of modernism in the twentieth century. Glennis Byronunravels its history and argues that contrary to belief the monologue remainspopular to this day. This farreaching and neatly structured volume explores the origins of the monologue and presents a history ofdefinitions of the term considers the monologue as a form of social critique explores issues at play in our understanding of the genre such assubjectivity gender and politics traces the development of the genre through to the present day.Taking as example the increasingly politicized nature of contemporarypoetry the author clearly and succinctly presents an account of themonologues growing popularity over the past twenty years. «