Whereas this approach (questioning the validity of promoting a canon of any sort) escapes the dilemmas of excluding authors on the grounds of sex, race, and class, and of uncritically supplementing the existing male canon, it does not solve the truly difficult question that remains: who should we teach and how shall we decide?
The Literary Canon
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Feminist Questions
- Feminist Responses
- Adding Women to Canon
- The Victorian Women Writers Project
- A Female Canon
- Alternative Readings
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