
Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
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- 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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- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Part I - WHAT THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO LEARN FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE
- Chapter One - 0LD ENGLISH LITERATURE
- Beowulf: The hero and the poem
- The Dream of the Rood
- "This life on loan"
- The Battle of Maldon
- Chapter Two - MEDIEVAL LITERATURE "HERE IS GOD'S PLENTY"
- Middle English poetry
- The politically incorrect world of the Middle Ages
- The Canterbury Tales vs. The Handmaid's Tale
- The dreary world of The Handmaid's Tale
- The fecundity of medieval art
- A pre-classical aesthetic
- In the light of eternity
- Christianity and freedom
- Separation of church and state, medieval style
- The argument from authority
- The invention of chivalry
- Chapter Three - THE RENAISSANCE CHRISTIAN HUMANISM
- Christopher Marlowe
- William Shakespeare
- The tragedies
- The comedies
- The sonnets
- Chapter Four - THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY RELIGION AS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
- John Donne
- John Milton
- Chapter Five - RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE THE AGE OF REASON
- Dead white male #1: John Dryden
- Dead white male #2: Alexander Pope
- Dead white male #3: Jonathan Swift
- Dead white male #4: Samuel Johnson
- "The proper study of mankind is man"-or is it?
- Chapter Six - THE NINETEENTH CENTURY REVOLUTION AND REACTION
- Revolutionary repeat
- Wordsworth and Coleridge
- Byron and the Shelleys
- Keats
- Jane Austen: Without a room of her own
- Celebrating "patriarchal values"
- Women who are bossy (and talk too much)
- Men who aren't patriarchal enough
- The benefits (to women) of "sexist" conventions
- Victorian literature
- Dickens
- Chapter Seven - THE TWENTIETH CENTURY THE AVANT-GARDE, AND BEYOND
- Decadents and aesthetes
- Modernism
- Chapter Eight - AMERICAN LITERATURE OUR OWN NEGLECTED CANON
- Big country, short attention spans
- The mystery of evil
- The possibility of escape
- Why we should still read Huckleberry Finn (despite the ugly racial epithets)
- Literature from the Deep South
- "A hillbilly Thomist"
- Part II - WHY THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO LEARN ABOUT ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Chapter Nine - HOW THE PC ENGLISH PROFESSORS ARE SUPPRESSING ENGLISH LITERATURE ...
- English professors teach anything and everything... except English literature
- Why they don't want you to read English and American literature
- "Theory"-Marxism, feminism, deconstruction, and bashing dead white males
- Postmodernist jargon: hideously ugly, mentally crippling
- Reality-denial as a critical stance
- Chapter Ten - WHAT LITERATURE IS FOR: "TO TEACH AND DELIGHT"
- What literature is really for
- Which literature is truly great?
- Truth, beauty, and goodness
- Part III - HOW YOU CAN TEACH YOURSELF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Chapter Eleven - HOW TO GET STARTED (ONCE YOU REALIZE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ...
- "Close reading"
- Reed's Rule
- What seems like an ordinary line of poetry
- The nuts and bolts of literary analysis
- The words themselves (what they mean, what they sound like, where they come from)
- A use for English grammar, after all
- Meter, verse forms, genres, and beyond
- Chapter Twelve - LEARN THE POETRY BY HEART-SEE THE PLAYS-GOSSIP ABOUT THE ...
- Learn the poetry by heart
- See the plays as often as you can-or, better yet, act in them
- Read the great novels, lend them to your friends, and gossip about the characters
- NOTES
- Acknowledgements
- INDEX
- Copyright Page
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