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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More interesting choices! I'm now thinking of making a reading list and having students choose one to read as a second novel - all these good suggestions won't go to waste :)

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Wharton is also kind of interesting. And yes, Chopin. I think The Awakening is often pretty standard in a course like that. Or you could really make a splash and do Flannery O'Connor. Are you doing any Dorothy Parker? I also recommend a short story by the wonderful Lorrie Moore, but you probably have so much lined up for the 20th century. And have you ever read any poems by Mary Oliver? I think she's grand.

Can you tell I am working on 1001 ways to avoid marking essays?