http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/oscar-wilde Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 01 May 2026 10:49:52 -0400 Fri, 01 May 2026 10:49:52 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1059/tragedy-in-the-ideas-of-friedrich-nietzsche-and-oscar-wilde By N L. N - One Victorian writer whose similarities to Nietzsche continue to receive sustained attention is Oscar Wilde—even though, as is the case with most of Nietzsche’s English-speaking contemporaries, they probably never read one another (Allen, 2006, p. 386). Thomas Mann (1959) first compared Nietzsche and Wilde in an essay that aligns them as co-conspirators in the early wave of head-on assaults upon the “hypocritical morality of the middle-class Victorian age” (p. 157). As Mann observes, Nietzsche and Wilde contemplate the individual as an aesthetic project, undertaken against... Tue, 11 Aug 2015 06:18 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1059/tragedy-in-the-ideas-of-friedrich-nietzsche-and-oscar-wilde http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1026/exploring-the-corruption-of-the-soul-in-the-works-of-oscar-wilde-bram-stoker-and-robert-louis-stevenson By Hayley E. Tartell - Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are all "Democratic Age"1 novels that evoke a theme of appearance versus reality. In Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, this motif physically materializes in the form of the canvas of Dorian Gray, superficially a beautiful, charming and wealthy young man. Similarly, a physical depiction of this theme is shown via the vehicle of Count Dracula, an alluring vampire with a corrupting influence, and his interactions with other characters. By... Sun, 12 Apr 2015 05:39 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1026/exploring-the-corruption-of-the-soul-in-the-works-of-oscar-wilde-bram-stoker-and-robert-louis-stevenson http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/537/comparing-oscar-wildes-the-importance-of-being-earnest-and-henry-james-daisy-miller By Jack D. Nicholls - Significantly, the example the dictionary gives of 'style's use in this manner is from a nineteenth century art scholar, Fuseli. In his essay “The Decay of Lying”, where Wilde briefly outlines many of his Aesthetic beliefs that inform his writing, he arrives at this final doctrine: 'Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art' (87). Before arriving at this conclusion, he argues at great length that beauty achieved through expression in Fuselian style over realism ('as a method Realism is a complete failure' [86]). Here he offers the 'case of the English... Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:16 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/537/comparing-oscar-wildes-the-importance-of-being-earnest-and-henry-james-daisy-miller