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The Greatness of English Literature- Conversations with Mark Bauerlein (6.24.21)

First Things Podcast

First Things

Religion & Spirituality

4.6699 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Elizabeth Kantor joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss her recent book, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature."

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Located in the foothills of Wyoming's spectacular wind river range, Wyoming Catholic College,

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an accredited four-year Great Books Institution is built on the ancient Western tradition of the liberal arts and the freedom of the American West.

0:24.5

The college offers its students an immersion in the primary sources of the classical tradition,

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the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, and the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church.

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Students experience the illumination of imagination and intellect through the great books and traditional disciplines, literature and philosophy, mathematics and theology, science and Latin, and an outdoor program second to none.

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The college celebrated an in-person graduation with its seniors last year and welcomed its largest freshman class ever this year.

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Learn more about the college's unique space in the

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world of American higher education at Wyoming Catholic.edu. Elizabeth Cantor joins us today. She is

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senior editor at Regnery Press. She's the author of the Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After.

1:09.0

I need that guide. I need it badly. She has another book that isn't new,

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but addresses a timely subject. It's called the politically incorrect guide to English and American

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literature. Welcome, Elizabeth. Thanks so much for having me on, Mark. You earned a doctorate

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in English at North Carolina Chapel Hill.

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Before getting to the contents of the book, tell us, did your experience in grad school

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lead you to this particular topic?

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Did it ever?

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I was at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the venerable English department

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when it was essentially mobbed, not in the literal sense, more recently more recently than what happened to me in grad school,

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I have seen an actual mob of UNC students

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dancing around the Confederate statue that I passed every day on my way to class,

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and essentially tearing down the statue and essentially dancing the carmagnol like the frenzied

2:21.1

French revolutionaries described in Charles Dickens' tale of two cities.

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