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Loving Sylvia Plath : a reclamation Cover Image Book Book

Loving Sylvia Plath : a reclamation / Emily Van Duyne.

Van Duyne, Emily, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1324006978
  • ISBN: 9781324006978
  • Physical Description: 303 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: "Gaslight" -- Love, my season: "A brief history of Sylvia Plath" -- Loving Assia Wevill -- Nota bene: "The dead girls" -- The haunting of Ted Hughes -- How reliable a witness? -- Harriet the spy -- The house of the ruler -- In the boneyard -- Afterword: "The heart in the fire."
Summary, etc.:
"A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century. Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination--the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne--a superfan and scholar--radically reimagines the last years of Plath's life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy. Drawing from decades of study on Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes, the chief architect of Plath's mythology; the life and tragic suicide of Assia Wevill, Hughes's mistress; newly available archival materials; and a deep understanding of intimate partner violence, Van Duyne seeks to undo the silencing of Sylvia Plath and resuscitate her as the hardworking, brilliant writer she was"-- Provided by publisher.

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Subject: Plath, Sylvia.
Plath, Sylvia > Criticism and interpretation.
Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.
Wevill, Assia, 1927-1969.
Women authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Women poets, American.
Feminist literary criticism.
Genre: Biographies.
Literary criticism.

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Main 811.54 P696 V2 (Text) 31307025873300 Non Fiction Checked out 07/21/2025
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5050 . ‡aIntroduction: "Gaslight" -- Love, my season: "A brief history of Sylvia Plath" -- Loving Assia Wevill -- Nota bene: "The dead girls" -- The haunting of Ted Hughes -- How reliable a witness? -- Harriet the spy -- The house of the ruler -- In the boneyard -- Afterword: "The heart in the fire."
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