If You Were Teaching...

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a one semester 2nd year college course in "Women's Lit," what novel would you teach???

I'm thinking about Jane Eyre, but would welcome other suggestions, just NOT The Handmaid's Tale, please.

ETA and not Mrs Dalloway, much as I love it, because I teach it in my 20th century lit course that some of my students in this upcoming course might have taken. And lidocafe teaches it in hers, so the same argument applies.

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[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Well, there are a couple of others ... Shadow's End and Gibbon's Decline and Fall that might also work.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think I might like to teach Grass sometime as it's my favourite of hers. I think it's a brilliant exploration of belief systems. Maybe not the most obvious choice in this context, though.