Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
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
