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 (Ph. D. in English literature), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation.

Plath, Sylvia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] ; New York [New York] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"Sylvia Plath is one of the most widely recognised 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:

Introduction: Approaching Sylvia Plath in the Twenty-First Century

Anita Helle

I : New Cultural and Historical Contexts

1. Plath as Punch Line

Jonathan Ellis

2. "Get bathrobe and slippers and nightgown & 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, Spaces, and Sylvia Plath

Gail Crowther

7

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

Sylvia Plath's Apprenticeship: Constructing a White Literary Imagination

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" Plath and Food

Lynda K. Bundtzen

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

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. 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 Screenplay

Amanda Golden

25. Feminist Recovery, Service Learning, and Community Engagement in a Sylvia Plath Studies Undergraduate Seminar

Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick

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

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350419667

1350419664

9781350119253

1350119253

9781350119246

1350119245

9781350119239

1350119237

OCLC:

1290325095