by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jan 18, 2023 | Audio, New Ideas and Research, Published Writing, The Bible, Victorian Studies, Video
My first book Jesus in the Victorian Novel: Reimagining Christ looks at how Victorian novelists explored the Incarnation through fiction. In doing so, they shifted the focus from what Jesus did (specifically dying for the sins of the world) to who Jesus was: a...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 15, 2016 | New Ideas and Research, News, Published Writing, Victorian Studies
The Victorians Institute Journal, Volume 43 has just been released, along with my article on George Eliot’s re-historicizing of Jesus in Adam Bede, titled: “Not an Average Man”: Jesus and the Commonplace Heroic of Adam Bede. I’m grateful for the assistance of the...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jan 26, 2016 | New Ideas and Research, News, Published Writing, Victorian Studies
VIJ (Victorians Institute Journal) will be publishing my article on Adam Bede in their forthcoming issue (#43)! This article grew out of a chapter in my dissertation, “The Quest for a Novelistic Jesus,” which looks at the changing characterization of Jesus in the...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 10, 2015 | Reading Well, Victorian Studies, Video
For some people, thinking of Adam Bede as Jesus presents problems because Adam isn’t always nice. In this video I look at George Eliot’s Adam Bede, discussing the advantages of thinking about Adam as a version of Jesus. While Adam is often thought of as...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 6, 2015 | New Ideas and Research, Victorian Studies, Video
In this video I give an overview of my dissertation, The Quest for a Novelistic Jesus: Literary Relationships with Jesus in Victorian Realism. I explain how the stories embedded in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theology lead to portrayals of Jesus and...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 1, 2015 | Reading Well, The Christian Imagination, Victorian Studies
Readers of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited often remark on the novel’s many profound, evocative reflections on Christian faith. And, to be fair, there are many memorable quotes to be found in its pages. But, what makes the novel great are not its many quotable...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 18, 2014 | Academic Conferences, New Ideas and Research, News, Victorian Studies
The North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)’s annual conference was held in London, Ontario over the weekend. The conference brought together scholars from around the world to consider the ideas of class and classification in the Victorian period,...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Aug 11, 2014 | New Ideas and Research, Victorian Studies, Video
In the first of a series of videos, I introduce my Ph.D. dissertation by addressing three key questions: What did the Victorians think of Jesus? Why does Jesus become so significant in the 19th century? Why examine Jesus in the Victorian novel? I welcome your...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jan 22, 2014 | Academic Conferences, New Ideas and Research, News, Victorian Studies
The University of Notre Dame is a great place to be when working on anything related to Religion and Literature. This week, I participated in the ongoing Mellon/ISLA Conversion and Literature Workshop series, presenting my work on the narrative shape of conversion in...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | May 16, 2013 | Reading Well, The Christian Imagination, Victorian Studies
Recently, I’ve spent quite a bit of time with Charles Dickens’s least-read work: The Life of Our Lord. It is a slim volume that re-tells the story of Jesus, drawing much of its language directly from the gospels. As I wrote in my post last month, despite Dickens’s...
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