The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature is a 2006 book by Elizabeth Kantor.

[1] It is the sixth book in Regnery Publishing's Politically Incorrect Guide series.

Kantor argues that the study of literature in universities today is distorted by theories - developed in the 1960s at Yale[2] and expanding through the 1970s and 1980s - that are aimed at attacking western civilization and Christianity for their alleged racism and sexism.

[3] This critical theory is believed by Kantor to have caused professors to replace the well-established literary canon with politically correct literature such as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985), the works of Toni Morrison and Dan Brown, or with theories such as Marxism and Freudianism.

In the opinion of Kantor, these politically correct professors want to make sure students learn to despise western civilization and Christianity[5] so that they are unable to reconsider the positions they acquire on classic literature after finishing their courses.