id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt dr26xw44t6k Jessica Ann Hughes The Quest for a Novelistic Jesus: Literary Relationships with Jesus in Victorian Realism 1904 .txt text/plain 349 12 30 Despite a few studies of Jesus in historical fiction regarding his role as a canvas onto which Victorian culture projected its own ideals, fears, and expectations, no one has seriously considered Jesus—and Victorian characters depicted in terms of Jesus' life— within successful realist novels by respected novelists. But scholarship on the matrix of beliefs, texts, practices and communities that comprise religion frequently ignores the central figure of the Christian faith: Jesus. cache/dr26xw44t6k.txt txt/dr26xw44t6k.txt