The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
- ISBN-10
- 1596986158
- ISBN-13
- 9781596986152
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 278
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-11-13
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Elizabeth Kantor
Description
What PC English professors don't want you to know...in Beowulf - If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us , in Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness, in Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it's just built into the nature of things) , in Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin , in Jane Austen: Most men would be improved if they were more patriarchal than they actually are , in Dickens: Reformers can do more harm than the injustices they set out to reform , in T. S. Eliot: Tradition is necessary to culture, in Flannery O'Connor: Even modern American liberals aren't immune to original sin .
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