During the summer of 1953, Plath descended into a deep depression. These feelings are honestly described in her college journal: “Loss of perspective humor.” She was treated with poorly administered ...
In this edition of “Long Story Short,” digital editor Emma Hannan talks about the fig tree metaphor in the “Bell Jar” and how ...
Decades after his first visit to a Sylvia Plath archive, Peter Steinberg has edited the book he dreamt of from the beginning: ...
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The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her ...
Nicholas Hughes had a nightmare start in life. His mother, Sylvia Plath, had a history of fighting her own inner demons that must have made it especially difficult for her to be there in her mind ...
The first study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction covering The Bell Jar and all of her published and unpublished short stories drawing extensively on archival material. To save content items to your ...
Please contact Liverpool University Press for availability about this product In this new edition of her engaging and original study Elisabeth Bronfen examines Sylvia Plath's poetry, her novel The ...