http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/victorian-literature 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 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:10:48 -0400 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:10:48 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1732/challenging-the-gender-dichotomy-in-the-victorian-era-reading-hemingways-up-in-michigan-and-mansfields-frau-brechenmacher-together By Kimberly Taylor - Sexual violence and coercion became hot topics in 2017, with endless headlines. However, these problems and issues are not new, nor are they confined to a single segment of society. Rather, they have longstanding roots within patriarchal society viewing the sexes as opposite ends of an oppositional dichotomy. This dichotomy is highlighted in two short stories, one by Hemingway and one by Katherine Mansfield. These stories contextualize sexual violence and coercion within Victorian era patriarchal societies revealing the perceived and taught active male/passive female dichotomy such societies were... Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:50 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1732/challenging-the-gender-dichotomy-in-the-victorian-era-reading-hemingways-up-in-michigan-and-mansfields-frau-brechenmacher-together http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1491/the-anxiety-of-the-unforseen-in-stevensons-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde By Ben D. Fuller - Robert Louis Stevenson typifies an anxiety shared by many prolific Victorian writers: that God will disappear as human psychology is readily researched and understood. Such a concern is evident in Stevenson’s personal experiences and writings, wherein he passionately expresses the belief that there is no such thing as definitive evil or good in a person, a medieval notion that had survived through the Romantic movement and until the time of skeptical Victorian writers. Following the example of his fellow Victorians, Stevenson created a character, Mr. Hyde, who exemplifies the concentrated... Fri, 04 Nov 2016 02:41 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1491/the-anxiety-of-the-unforseen-in-stevensons-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1453/womens-struggles-in-industrialized-victorian-london-as-depicted-in-charles-dickenss-hard-times-and-christina-rossettis-goblin-market By Emily Gray - The Victorian Age was a time of rapid economic, social, and cultural change throughout England. Beginning in the late 1700s and early 1800s, industry began to take shape in Britain, launching England into an era characterized by “momentous and intimidating” social movements, surprising inventions, and a remarkable energy driving the time (“Victorian Age” 1099). This culminated under the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), as people migrated from the country to the city in the hopes of finding better wages as a result of the Industrial Revolution (Service 83). The changes... Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:20 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1453/womens-struggles-in-industrialized-victorian-london-as-depicted-in-charles-dickenss-hard-times-and-christina-rossettis-goblin-market 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/926/the-search-for-utopia-charles-dickens-hard-times-and-alfred-tennysons-mariana By Vanessa M. Braganza - Charles Dickens’ Hard Times and Alfred Tennyson’s poem Mariana both invite readers to explore notions of utopia and the ideal setting for human beings. In a remarkably similar rhetorical process, both works present readers with a pair of antithetical settings alongside tragic and comic elements that highlight them as non-ideal. Both writers employ Hazlitt’s principle that “man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be” (269). By inflecting these settings... Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:30 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/926/the-search-for-utopia-charles-dickens-hard-times-and-alfred-tennysons-mariana http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/850/goblin-market-renunciation-and-redemption-in-christina-rossettis-narrative-poem By Kelley S. Kent - The poem begins with the goblin men’s continual cry, “Come buy, come buy” (l. 4). What these goblins represent is clear by their seductive, sexually explicit, description of their fruity wares: “Plump unpecked cherries / . . . Bloom‑down‑cheeked peaches, / Swart‑headed mulberries, /Wild free‑born cranberries /. . . Pomegranates full and fine” (ll. 7, 9‑11, 21). The goblin men appear to sell fruit, but they really appeal to, and try to waken, women’s carnal lusts: “sweet to tongue and sound to eye” (l. 30). The goblins... Sat, 11 Jan 2014 05:04 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/850/goblin-market-renunciation-and-redemption-in-christina-rossettis-narrative-poem http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/259/rhetorical-analysis-pauline-inklings-in-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde By Alicia D. Costello - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson proves to be an enduring literary illumination into the human psyche. This little novella, published as a Christmas story in 1886, took some of the first steps into early Modernism and provided the basis for stories that more deeply dive into human psyche like Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was one of the first books to explore the duality of good and evil in everyday people, a strong step away from the mono-polarization of morality present in... Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:19 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/259/rhetorical-analysis-pauline-inklings-in-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde