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With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath provides the most comprehensive collection of contemporary scholarship on Plath's work.
Including new scholarly perspectives from feminist and gender studies, critical race studies, medical humanities and disability studies, this collection explores:
· Plath's literary contexts - from the Classics and the long poem to W.B Yeats, Edith Sitwell, Ruth Sillitoe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Ted Hughes
· New insights from Plath's previously unpublished letters and writings
· Plath's broadcasting work for the BBC
Providing new approaches to her life and work, this book is an indispensable volume for scholars of Sylvia Plath.
About the author
Anita Helle is Professor of English at Oregon State University, USA and founding Director of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film (2011-2015). She is the editor of The Unravelling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath (2007).Amanda Golden is Associate Professor of English at New York Institute of Technology, USA. She is the author of Annotating Modernism (2019) and editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton (2016).Maeve O’Brien a postdoctoral research co-ordinator at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Summary
With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath provides the most comprehensive collection of contemporary scholarship on Plath’s work.
Including new scholarly perspectives from feminist and gender studies, critical race studies, medical humanities and disability studies, this collection explores:
· Plath’s literary contexts – from the Classics and the long poem to W.B Yeats, Edith Sitwell, Ruth Sillitoe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Ted Hughes
· New insights from Plath’s previously unpublished letters and writings
· Plath’s broadcasting work for the BBC
Providing new approaches to her life and work, this book is an indispensable volume for scholars of Sylvia Plath.
Foreword
A complete and up-to-date reference guide to contemporary scholarship on Sylvia Plath, with chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars.
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The editors of this comprehensive collection easily make the case for more scholarly and critical work on Sylvia Plath. They cite her evolving and expanding archive and publications, including a restored edition of Ariel, the edition of Plath’s collected letters, and Emory University’s recent acquisition of the Harriet Rosenstein papers. Not only are their new things to say about Sylvia Plath, whose “global stature,”needs no defense, there are new approaches to the study of her work and life that this volume explores.
