The Bloomsbury handbook to Sylvia Plath / edited by Anita Helle, Amanda Golden, & Maeve O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Helle, Anita Plath, 1948- editor.

Golden, Amanda, 1979- editor.

O'Brien, Maeve, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Bloomsbury handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation.

Plath, Sylvia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"Sylvia Plath is one of the most widely recognized and inspiring poets of the 20th century. With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars this is the most up-to-date and in-depth reference guide to 21st century scholarship on her life and work. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath covers the full range of contemporary scholarship on Plath's work, including such topics as: ̈New insights from the publication of Plath's letters; ̈Current scholarly perspectives: feminist and gender studies, race, medical humanities and ecocriticism; ̈Plath's poetry, the major novel, The Bell Jar , and Plath's writing for children; ̈Plath's literary contexts, from Ovid and Robert Lowell to Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing and Stevie Smith; ̈Plath's broadcasting work for the BBC. The book also includes a substantial annotated bibliography of key primary and secondary writing by and on the author." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I New Cultural and Historical Contexts

1. Plath as Punch Line / Jonathan Ellis

2. "Get bathrobe and slippers and nightgown 8c work on femininity": Sylvia Plath, Self-Identity, and Sleepwear / Rebecca C. Tuite

3. Psychiatric Disability and Asylum Fiction: From The Snake Pit to The Bell Jar / Elizabeth J. Donaldson

4. Sylvia Plath's Cambridge / Di Beddow

5. Plath in Space: Feeling the Chill of the Void / Tim Hancock

6. Spectral Traces, Places, and Sylvia Plath / Gail Crowther

7. <maniacs.> of the Heterotopia: Citizen Critics and Marginalia in Library Copies of Sylvia Plath / Christine Walde

8. "God's Lioness" and God's "Negress": The Feminine and the Figure of the African American in Plath / Jerome Ellison Murphy

9. Centering Whiteness: Sylvia Plath's Literary Apprenticeship / Maeve O'Brien

10. The Child Reading: Female Stereotypes and Social Authority in Sylvia Plath's Children's Stories / Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis

11. Lucent Figs and Suave Veal Chops: Sylvia Plath and Food / Lynda K. Bundtzen

pt. II Affiliations, Influences, and Intertextualities

12. Sylvia Plath's Greek Tragedy / Holly Ranger

13. "Yeats I like very very much": Sylvia Plath and W. B. Yeats / Gillian Groszewski

14. The Law of Similarity and the Law of Contact: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and Sympathetic Magic / Katherine Robinson

15. "I am a miner": Long Poems and Literary Succession in Ariel and Crow / Jennifer Ryan-Bryant

16. "Not Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Sillitoe": Sylvia Plath and Ruth Fainlight in the 1960s / Heather Clark

17. Beelines: Reading Plath through Edith Sitwell and Carol Ann Duffy / Marsha Bryant

18. Medusa's Metadata: Aurelia Plath's Gregg Shorthand Annotations / Catherine Rankovic

19. "I may hate her, but that's not all": Mother-Daughter Intimacy in the Plath Archive / Janet Badia

pt. III Media and Pedagogy

20. Plath and Media Culture / Nicola Presley

21. "I imagine that a man might not praise it as much": Reception of "Three Women" and Plath's BBC-Recorded Poetry / Carrie Smith

22. Sylvia Plath's "Three Women": Producing a Poetics of Listening at the BBC / Nerys Williams

23. Sylvia Plath's "The Jailor" as Radical Feminist Text / Bethany Hicok

24. Archival Pedagogy: Curating Edna O'Brien's Sylvia Plath Television Play / Amanda Golden

25. Feminist Recovery, Service Learning, and Community Engagement in a Sylvia Plath Studies Undergraduate Seminar / Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick

pt. IV Editing the Archives

26. Sylvia Plath in the Round / Karen V. Kukil

27. "They will come asking for our letters": Editing The Letters of Sylvia Plath / Peter K. Steinberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1350119229

9781350119222

OCLC:

1259511501