The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature (The Politically Incorrect Guides) - Softcover

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Kantor, Elizabeth

 
9781596980112: The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature (The Politically Incorrect Guides)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1596980117 ISBN 13: 9781596980112
Verlag: Regnery, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Regnery
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1596980117
ISBN 13 
9781596980112
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278
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