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The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature (Book/ Paperback)

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature exposes the PC professors and takes you on a fascinating tour through our great literature-in all its politically incorrect glory. Included: a syllabus and how-to guide to give yourself the English lit education you were denied in school.

• 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(s)

Elizabeth Kantor is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in philosophy from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Kantor is the editor of the Conservative Book Club.