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Sylvia Plath in Context

Tracy Brain editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:22nd Aug '19

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

The book reveals the wide range of personal, artistic, political, historical and geographical influences that shaped Sylvia Plath's work. The primary readers envisioned are students, scholars, and instructors of Plath and twentieth century poetry more generally.Sylvia Plath in Context brings together an exciting combination of established and emerging thinkers from a range of disciplines. The book reveals Plath's responses to the writers she reads, her interventions in the literary techniques and forms she encounters, and the wide range of cultural, personal, artistic, political, historical and geographical influences that shaped her work. Many of these essays confront the specific challenges for reading Sylvia Plath today. Others evaluate her legacy to the writers who followed her. Reaching well beyond any simple equation in which biographical cause results in literary effect, all of them argue for a body of work that emerges from Plath's deep involvement in the world she inhabits. Situating Plath's writing within a wide frame of references that reach beyond any single notion of self, this book will be a vital resource for students, scholars, instructors and researchers of Sylvia Plath.

'Appearing in the 'In Context' series, this volume offers an excellent scholarly overview of Sylvia Plath's life, work, influence, and afterlife … An indispensable resource that deepens understanding of Plath's work and world.' L. Simon, Choice
'A varied and well-edited selection that indicates the range of current Plath studies.' Ann Kennedy Smith, TLS

ISBN: 9781108470131

Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 27mm

Weight: 780g

446 pages