Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Chapter 23 Plath’s Journals
- Chapter 24 Plath’s Teaching and the Shaping of Her Work
- Chapter 25 Electroshock Therapy and Plath’s Convulsive Poetics
- Chapter 26 Plath’s Scrapbooks
- Chapter 27 Beyond Letters Home: Plath’s Unabridged Correspondence
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 27 - Beyond Letters Home: Plath’s Unabridged Correspondence
from Part VI - Biographical Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
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Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Chapter 23 Plath’s Journals
- Chapter 24 Plath’s Teaching and the Shaping of Her Work
- Chapter 25 Electroshock Therapy and Plath’s Convulsive Poetics
- Chapter 26 Plath’s Scrapbooks
- Chapter 27 Beyond Letters Home: Plath’s Unabridged Correspondence
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Via the first volume of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Karen Kukil traces the key themes and concerns that preoccupy the writer, providing an intellectual, cultural and personal biography. Thereby, Kukil establishes the key contexts out of which Plath’s poetry and fiction emerge. After the well-documented deletions in Letters Home, and the dissatisfaction many readers felt at a selection that depicted Plath as ceaselessly happy, Kukil views the full and unabridged letters as akin to a full-length colour film after a black and white short.
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