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Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and Real-Life Trial by Combat

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: January 19, 2010
I’m studying Ivanhoe right now, and I came across some interesting articles about the book and its connection to a real-life trial by combat… in 1817. So I thought I would blog about the details, because though I think it is really interesting it will probably never make it into my paper. Anyways: The Ashford [...]
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Writing habits pt. 1: Anthony Trollope

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: December 5, 2009
I started a post comparing the writing habits of Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Ernest Hemingway, but I found that for each writer the most interesting theme about their writing was unique to them. Trollope is a machine. Dickens is concerned primarily with his medium. Hemingway is–well, he’s Hemingway. So I split it into three [...]
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