Sylvia Plath's fiction : a critical study / Luke Ferretter.

Author/creator Ferretter, Luke, 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Descriptionx, 213 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Literary contexts. Virginia Woolf ; The New Yorker ; Women's magazine fiction ; Women's madness narratives ; Ted Hughes -- Plath's poetry and fiction. Smith, 1954-55 ; Cambridge, 1956-57 ; Falcon Yard, 1957-58 ; Boston and Yaddo, 1958-59 ; The bell jar, 1961 ; Double exposure, 1962-63 -- The politics of Plath's fiction. Political development ; Race stories ; Cold War stories ; Crazy about the Rosenbergs ; "I could love a Russian boy" ; Strange love ; Growing up in the Second World War -- Gender and society in The bell jar. Sex ; Medicine ; Psychiatry ; Beauty ; Marriage ; "Femininity" -- Gender and society in Plath's short stories. Plath's women's magazine fiction ; Home is where the heart is ; Feminine identities ; Violence and patriarchy.
Local noteLittle-305131062365Z
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-207) and index.
ISBN9780748625093 (hbk.)
ISBN0748625097 (hbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS3566.L27 Z655 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold