Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

Download or read book Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature written by Elizabeth Kantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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