The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (Bloomsbury Handbooks)

"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 Cover Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Note on the Cover Abbreviations Introduction: Approaching Sylvia Plath in the Twenty-First Century Anita Helle Part 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, Places, 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 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 Part 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 Part 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 Part 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 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. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath covers a 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, archival studies, race, disability studies, space and place Plath's poetry, her novel, The Bell Jar, and her writing for children Plath's literary contexts, from the Classics and the long poem to W.B. Yeats, Edith Sitwell, Ruth Fainlight, Carol Ann Duffy, and Ted Hughes Plath's broadcasting work for the BBC New perspectives on media and pedagogy, including service learning and the digital humanities.