Who owns the literary canon? Does it belong to the left or the right?
It depends on how you define "belong"
Before I started research for my book, I didn’t seriously associate the right wing with the Great Books. When people called the books racist and said they encouraged regressive attitudes, I just thought the critics were silly and hadn't read them. Since looking for more commentators on the books I've definitely noticed there's a right wing contingent of…
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