The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

Elizabeth Kantor

ISBN 10: 1596980117 / ISBN 13: 9781596980112

Published by Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company, 2006

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pp. xix + 278.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596980117
• ISBN 13: 9781596980112
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

Elizabeth Kantor is author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature and The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in philosophy from Catholic University of America. Kantor has taught English literature and written for publications ranging from National Review Online to the Boston Globe. An avid Jane Austen fan, she is happily married and lives with her husband and son in Gaithersburg, Maryland.