Sylvia Plath in Context

ISBN-13: 9781108470131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 446 str.

Tracy Brain

Opis

Describes how interwar modernism responded to the global crisis in the liberal world order after 1919.

Recenzje

'A varied and well-edited selection that indicates the range of current Plath studies.' Ann Kennedy Smith, TLS

Spis treści

Part I. Literary Contexts: 1. Plath and the American poetry scene Jonathan Ellis; 2. The dominant trends in British poetry of the 1950s and early 1960s Eleanor Spencer; 3. Plath and the classics Holly Ranger; 4. Plath and the radio drama Andrew Walker; 5. 'Sincerely yours': Plath and The New Yorker Peter K. Steinberg; Part II. Literary Technique and Influence: 6. Plath in the context of Stevie Smith Noreen Masud; 7. Plath's whimsy Will May; 8. Sylvia Plath and you Tracy Brain; 9. Plath and the lyric Lucy Tunstall; 10. Plath and the pastoral Iain Twiddy; Part III. Cultural Contexts: 11. Plath and food Gerard Woodward; 12. Plath and fashion Rebecca C. Tuite; 13. Experimental bravery: Plath's poetry and auteur cinema Lynda Bundtzen; 14. Plath and television Nicola Presley; 15. Plath and art Jane Hedley; Part IV. Sexual and Gender Contexts: 16. 'Minor scandal': queer writing contexts for The Bell Jar Beatrice Hitchman; 17. 'Woman-haters were like gods': The Bell Jar and violence against women in 1950s America Kate Harding; 18. Sylvia Plath and the culture of hygiene Laura Perry; Part V. Political and Religious Contexts: 19. The Bell Jar, the Rosenbergs and the problem of the enemy within Robin Peel; 20. Religious contexts for Sylvia Plath's work Gail Crowther; 21. Plath and nature Richard Kerridge; 22. Plath and war Cornelia Pearsall; Part VI. Biographical Contexts: 23. Sylvia Plath's journals Sally Bayley; 24. Plath's teaching and the shaping of her work Amanda Golden; 25. Electroshock therapy and Plath's convulsive poetics Anita Helle; 26. Plath's scrapbooks Peter K. Steinberg; 27. Beyond letters home: Plath's unabridged correspondence Karen V. Kukil; Part VII. Plath and Place: 28. 'A certain minor light': Sylvia Plath in Brontë country Sarah Corbett; 29. Plath in London Elaine Feinstein; 30. Plath in Devon: growing words out of isolation Maeve O'Brien; Part VIII. The Creative Afterlife: 31. An alternative afterlife: Plath's experimental poetics Gareth Farmer; 32. British and American editions of Ariel and The Bell Jar Elena Rebollo-Cortés; 33. After Plath: the legacy of influence Fiona Sampson; 34. P(l)athography: Sylvia Plath and her biographers Heather Clark.