The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (Bloomsbury Handbooks

With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath provides the most comprehensive collection of contemporary scholarship on Plath’s work.

Including new scholarly perspectives from feminist and gender studies, critical race studies, medical humanities and disability studies, this collection explores:

· Plath’s literary contexts – from the Classics and the long poem to W.B Yeats, Edith Sitwell, Ruth Sillitoe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Ted Hughes
· New insights from Plath’s previously unpublished letters and writings
· Plath’s broadcasting work for the BBC

Providing new approaches to her life and work, this book is an indispensable volume for scholars of Sylvia Plath.