The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature (The Politically Incorrect Guides) by Elizabeth Kantor
English | November 13, 2006 | ISBN: 1596980117 | True PDF | 278 pages | 2 MB
English | November 13, 2006 | ISBN: 1596980117 | True PDF | 278 pages | 2 MB
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