The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath

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.

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.