Sylvia Plath in context / edited by Tracy Brain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brain, Tracy, editor.

Series:

Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)

[Literature in context]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation.

Plath, Sylvia.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 419 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"In recent years, literary critics have engaged in a variety of new approaches to Sylvia Plath's work. Readers themselves are increasingly aware of the complex array of backgrounds and frameworks which shape Plath's writing. Bringing together an exciting combination of established and emerging thinkers from a range of disciplines, Sylvia Plath in Context is an important new landmark in this ongoing project"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Plath and the American poetry scene / Jonathan Ellis

The dominant trends in British poetry of the 1950s and early 1960s / Eleanor Spencer

Plath and the classics / Holly Ranger

Plath and the radio drama / Andrew Walker

'Sincerely yours' : Plath and the New Yorker / Peter K. Steinberg

Plath in the context of Stevie Smith / Noreen Masud

Plath's whimsy / Will May

Sylvia Plath and you / Tracy Brain

Plath and the lyric / Lucy Tunstall

Plath and the pastoral / Iain Twiddy

Plath and food / Gerard Woodward

Plath and fashion / Rebecca C. Tuite

Experimental bravery : Plath's poetry and auteur cinema / Lynda Bundtzen

Plath and television / Nicola Presley

Plath and art / Jane Hedley

'Minor scandal' : queer writing contexts for The bell jar / Beatrice Hitchman

'Woman-haters were like gods' : The bell jar and violence against women in 1950s America / Kate Harding

Sylvia Plath and the culture of hygiene / Laura Perry

The bell jar, the Rosenbergs and the problem of the enemy within / Robin Peel

Religious contexts for Sylvia Plath's work / Gail Crowther

Plath and nature / Richard Kerridge

Plath and war / Cornelia Pearsall

Sylvia Plath's journals / Sally Bayley

Plath's teaching and the shaping of her work / Amanda Golden

Electroshock therapy and Plath's convulsive poetics / Anita Helle

Plath's scrapbooks / Peter K. Steinberg

Beyond letters home : Plath's unabridged correspondence / Karen V. Kukil

'A certain minor light' : Sylvia Plath in Brontë country / Sarah Corbett

Plath in London / Elaine Feinstein

Plath in Devon : growing words out of isolation / Maeve O'Brien

An alternative afterlife : Plath's experimental poetics / Gareth Farmer

British and American editions of Ariel and The bell jar / Elena Rebollo-Cortes

After Plath : the legacy of influence / Fiona Sampson

P(l)athography : Sylvia Plath and her biographers / Heather Clark.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108470131

1108470130

OCLC:

1098217778