Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

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Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

Literary studies: general Right-of-centre democratic ideologies

Author: Elizabeth Kantor

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Language: English

Published by: Regnery

Published on: 13th November 2006

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 843 Kb

ISBN: 9781596986152


What PC English professors don’t want you to learn from . . .

- Beowulf: If we don’t admire heroes, there’s something wrong with us

- Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women’s happiness

- Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it’s just built into the nature of things)

- Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin

- Jane Austen: Most men would be improved if they were more patriarchal than they actually are

- Dickens: Reformers can do more harm than the injustices they set out to reform

- T. S. Eliot: Tradition is necessary to culture

- Flannery O’Connor: Even modern American liberals aren’t immune to original sin

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