The Victorian time period is marked by the life of Queen Victoria who ascended to the throne in 1837 and died in 1901. This period placed emphasis on values such as honor, duty, morality, and sexual propriety. Accordingly, the hierarchical structures of gender, race, and cultural superiority held these Victorian values in place. There was a rise of a spirit of entrepreneurship which could potentially provide upward mobility, but this prospect was often dimmed by the grim reality of widespread poverty and starvation. Novelists of this time period felt that their work may be able to enlighten their audience to abhorrent conditions of the working class. The emergence of realism in literature allowed the author to reflect the everyday habits, desires, and moral progress back to his/her average reader.

• The Cross-Shaped Hole in A Christmas Carol
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Narrative Perspective
• Gentelman Pip
• “Bucket is so deep”
• Childhood and Childishness
• "The Romantic Side of Familiar Things"
• Mirror, Mirror, on the Page
• Disparities Between Theory and Practice
• Silas Marner and the Limitations of Experiential Knowledge
• On Education?
• Martineau's "Authorial Spectacles"
• Sexual Violence in “Goblin Market”
• Duped!
• The Effects of Serving a Life Sentence in the Friend Zone
• Hot or Not List: The Vanity of George Osbourne and Joseph Sedley
• "That Creature" - The Unappreciated Heroine of Vanity Fair
• Thackery and the Art of Snark
• Sweet Big Fat Lies
• Words Are All I Have To Take Your Heart Away!
• “And the Psalms? I hope you like them?”
• See John and Jane Fight: Textuality and Carnality
• No Time Like the Present?
• Walking the walk
• Extra! Extra! Reade all about it!
• The Dilemma of Falling in Love
• Sonnet 43 is a lie!!!
• Panopticon's on You
• Reflections of The Savior in Eden
• What is Love? Baby Don't Hurt Me
• Disruptive Disparities
• My Great Hesitation
• 1 Corinthians 13
• Depressing or Inspiring?
• Women Sometimes Over Think
• Un-Charitable Love
• "Other Courts" of Judgment
• Empowerment Through Female Sexuality in "Dracula"
• Hey, Harker! What's the Time?
• The Other Dracula
• "What would an angel say, the devil wants to know"
• Foreigners, Shmoreigners: The Count and the Moonstone
• Second Impressions Matter
• *****es Be Lazy: Female Characters That Feed Victorian Expectations
• “Marriage is what brings us together today”
• Gwendolen Golightly
• Unsuitable Suitors: Why Jem Doesn’t Make the Cut
• Rampant Illness in Mary Barton...The Purpose?
• "Gentle Humanities"
• Into the Open Air
• The Jem Complex
• In Defense of Henry Carson
• Mary Barton and the Value of Neighborly Love
• Mary Barton. By David Smith
• Mary Barton is awesome
• Angel in the House imagery in "Professions for Women"
• The Inter-Woman Period.
• A Novel without a Hero?
• Vanity Fair- Becky's Two Sides
• No Hero? That's Life.
• Vanity Fair--Textual Puzzle
• Repetition and Hidden Meanings in "Song of the Shirt"
• Victorian Era, Thomas Hood, Browning
• The Use of "Young" in The Cry of the Children
• Browning's Cry Against Men
• War in Vanity Fair
• Connections between Carlyle and Marx--the Plight of the Working Class
• The Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1844- Friedrich Engels
• Thomas Carlyle, Victorian Era
• Characterization in Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor
• Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor
• The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844--Friedrich Engels
• A Chimney Sweep's Lot- Victorian England's Stratified Society
• Morality in the Victorian Period-Henry Mayhew