Literature Lost : Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities

by John M. Ellis

• ISBN13: 9780300075793
• ISBN10: 0300075790
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-04-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

With forceful logic, Professor John M. Ellis contends that humanistic education today, far from being historically aware, relies on anachronistic thinking. Ellis speaks out against an orthodoxy that has installed race, gender, and class perspectives at the center of college humanities curricula, and proposes change to repair the damage.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Origins of Political Correctness	p. 12
The Diversity of Literature	p. 33
Gender, Politics, and Criticism	p. 60
The Academic Politics of Race	p. 89
Class and Perfect Egalitarianism	p. 115
Activism and Knowledge	p. 140
Power, Objectivity, and PC Logic	p. 160
Is Theory to Blame?	p. 181
How Did It All Happen - and What Comes Next?	p. 204
Conclusion	p. 228
Notes	p. 231
Index	p. 257
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