http://brianechappell.wordpress.com Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:36:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/a2804b134522abccf38c5100ba7147d9?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://brianechappell.wordpress.com http://brianechappell.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/the-scholar/ http://brianechappell.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/the-scholar/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:27:33 +0000 Brian Chappell http://brianechappell.wordpress.com/?p=433 Continue reading →]]> If my other blog is about convincing ourselves that we are, in fact, writers, this blog is about convincing ourselves that we are, in fact, scholars. A no less daunting task, really. Like the unpublished poet or storyteller who wonders if his or her work can hack it, the graduate student is lowly, humble, confused, and broke. We compose these massive documents of scholarly work, with no sense of the payoff. Here, I’ll blog about my own scholarly work, namely on the historical novel. Book reviews, essays, etc.

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