The poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Browning and Victorian values
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I can explain how the Brownings' poems subvert typical Victorian values.
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Victorian society viewed women as passive and confined them to domestic roles.
Victorian society had a stigma surrounding sexual freedom and liberation.
The Brownings were a couple whose marriage challenged Victorian attitudes towards love and relationships.
Both 'Sonnet 29' and 'Porphyria's Lover' challenge typical attitudes of the Victorian era towards love and marriage.
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