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 | 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...
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