Cambridge University Press has published Representing Sylvia Plath , edited by Tracy Brain and Sally Bayley. The book is now available in the UK and will be available in the USA in September, though you may be able to order from CUP now... To order the book through Cambridge University Press, click here . The retail price is £50.00, which is substantial but I suspect work every penny or pence. Other metadata include: ISBN: 9781107006751 Publication date: August 2011 264 pages 22 b/w illus. Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Weight: 0.56 kg The books contents include: Introduction: 'Purdah' and the enigma of representation by Sally Bayley and Tracy Brain Part I. Contexts: 1. 'Mailed into space': on Sylvia Plath's letters by Jonathan Ellis 2. 'The photographic chamber of the eye': Plath photography, and the post-confessional muse by Anita Helle 3. 'O the tangles of that old bed': fantasies of incest and the 'Daddy' narrative in Ariel...

The Plathosphere is anticipating Representing Sylvia Plath , a collection of essays on Plath edited by the estimable duo of Sally Bayley (Oxford University) and Tracy Brain (Bath Spa University). The publisher is Cambridge University Press and the publication date is looking like April or June 2011. The table of contents looks like this: Introduction: ‘Purdah’ and the Enigma of Representation by Sally Bayley and Tracy Brain Part I: Contexts Aesthetics and Ideology: Judging Plath’s Letters by Jonathan Ellis The Photographic Chamber of the Eye: Plath Photography, and the Post-Confessional Muse by Anita Helle ‘O the tangles of that old bed’: Fantasies of Incest and the ‘Daddy’ Narrative in Ariel by Lynda K. Bundtzen Plath and Torture: Literary and Cultural Contexts for Plath’s Use of the Holocaust by Steven Gould Axelrod Part II: Poetics and Composition ‘The Trees of the Mind are Black, The Light is Blue’: Sublime Encounters in Sylvia Plath’s Tree Poems by Sally Bayley Coming to Terms wi...