The Politically Incorrect Guide to English And American LiteratureWhat 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 |
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Contents
What They Dont Want You to Learn from | 1 |
Medieval Literature Here Is Gods Plenty | 23 |
The Renaissance Christian Humanism | 49 |
The Seventeenth Century Religion as a Matter of Life | 85 |
Restoration and EighteenthCentury Literature | 103 |
The Nineteenth Century Revolution and Reaction | 119 |
The Twentieth Century The AvantGarde and Beyond | 153 |
American Literature Our Own Neglected Canon | 167 |
Why They Dont Want You to Learn about | 187 |
hideously ugly mentally crippling | 194 |
What Literature Is For To Teach and Delight | 203 |
How You Can Teach Yourself English and | 213 |
Learn the Poetry by HeartSee the PlaysGossip about | 229 |
Notes | 243 |
Acknowledgments | 261 |
despite the ugly racial epithets | 175 |
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