The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath

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- New insights from Plath’s previously unpublished letters and writings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.

Anita Helle is Professor of English at Oregon State University, USA and founding Director of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film (2011-2015). She is the editor of The Unravelling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath (2007).

Amanda Golden is Assistant Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, USA. She is the author of Annotating Modernism (2019) and editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton (2016).

Maeve O’Brien is a Teaching Fellow at Ulster University, UK.