The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature |
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| Author:
| Kantor, Elizabeth |
| Series title: | The Politically Incorrect Guides |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59698-615-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2006 |
| Publisher: | Regnery Publishing
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionWhat 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