Sylvia Plath's Fiction : : A Critical Study / / Luke Ferretter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Ferretter, Luke,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

This is the first study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction. Plath wrote fiction throughout her life, in a wide variety of genres, including women's magazine romances, New Yorker stories, comedy, social criticism, autobiography, teenage fiction and science fiction. She wrote novels before and after The Bell Jar. Discussing all these novels and stories, and based on research in the three major archives of her work, this book is the complete study of Plath's fiction. The author analyses her influences as a fiction writer, the relationships between her poetry and fiction, the political views she expresses in her fiction, and devotes two chapters to the central concern of her novels and stories, the roles of women in contemporary society.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Literary Contexts -- Chapter 2 Plath’s Poetry and Fiction -- Chapter 3 The Politics of Plath’s Fiction -- Chapter 4 Gender and Society in The Bell Jar -- Chapter 5 Gender and Society in Plath’s Short Stories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index