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From the website:
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.
Below is the table of contents, obtained from the publisher's website.
Introduction: Approaching Sylvia Plath in the 21st Century
I: New Cultural and Historical Contexts
1. Plath as Punch Line by Jonathan Ellis
2. "Get bathrobe and slippers and nightgown & work on femininity": Sylvia Plath, Self-Identity, and Sleepwear by Rebecca C. Tuite
3. Psychiatric Disability and Asylum Fiction: From The Snake Pit to The Bell Jar by Elizabeth J. Donaldson
4. Sylvia Plath's Cambridge by Di Beddow
5. Plath in Space: Feeling the Chill of the Void by Tim Hancock
6. Spectral Traces, Spaces, and Sylvia Plath by Gail Crowther
7. <maniacs.> of the Heterotopia: Citizen Critics and Marginalia in Library Copies of Sylvia Plath by Christine Walde
8. "God's Lioness" and God's "Negress": The Feminine and the Figure of the African American in Plath by Jerome Ellison Murphy
9. Sylvia Plath's Apprenticeship: Constructing a White Literary Imagination by Maeve O'Brien
10. The Child Reading: Female Stereotypes and Social Authority in Sylvia Plath's Children's Stories by Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
11. "Lucent Figs and Suave Veal Chops”": Plath and Food by Lynda K. Bundtzen
II: Affiliations, Influences, and Intertextualities
12. Sylvia Plath's Greek Tragedy by Holly Ranger
13. "Yeats I like very very much": Sylvia Plath and W. B. Yeats by Gillian Groszewski
14. The Law of Similarity and the Law of Contact: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and Sympathetic Magic by Katherine Robinson
15. "I am a miner": Long Poems and Literary Succession in Ariel and Crow by Jennifer Ryan-Bryant
16. "Not Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Sillitoe": Sylvia Plath and Ruth Fainlight in the 1960s by Heather Clark
17. Beelines: Reading Plath through Edith Sitwell and Carol Ann Duffy by Marsha Bryant
18. Medusa's Metadata: Aurelia Plath's Gregg Shorthand Annotations by Catherine Rankovic
19. "I may hate her, but that's not all": Mother-Daughter Intimacy in the Plath Archive by Janet Badia
III: Media and Pedagogy
20. Plath and Media Culture by Nicola Presley
21. "I imagine that a man might not praise it as much": Reception of "Three Women" and Plath's BBC-Recorded Poetry by Carrie Smith
22. Plath's "Three Women": Producing a Poetics of Listening at the BBC by Nerys Williams
23. Sylvia Plath's “The Jailor” as Radical Feminist Text by Bethany Hicok
24. Archival Pedagogy: Curating Edna O'Brien's Sylvia Plath Screenplay by Amanda Golden
25. Feminist Recovery, Service Learning, and Community Engagement in a Sylvia Plath Studies Undergraduate Seminar by Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick
IV: Editing the Archives
26. Sylvia Plath in the Round by Karen V. Kukil
27. "They will come asking for our letters": Editing The Letters of Sylvia Plath by Peter K. Steinberg
My own contribution to this volume which I am proud to have included is “They Will Come Asking for Our Letters”: Editing The Letters of Sylvia Plath. It was adapted and enlarged from my keynote talk given at the "Sylvia Plath: Letters, Words and Fragments" conference held at Ulster University, 10-11 November 2017.
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