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from Part VI - Biographical Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
Anita Helle provides transdisciplinary perspectives on electroshock therapy as a context for Plath’s fiction. Counter to many critics and biographers, Helle does not ‘diagnose’ Plath. Rather, she historicises Plath’s literary response to an electroshock treatment from both sides of a highly mobile, linguistically multi-valent, and ideologically charged literary and medical spectrum. Plath’s literary responses to electric shock treatment emerge in the context of post-WWII social upheavals. In these, representations of ECT in art and literature recall surrealist aims to shape a counter-aesthetic “convulsive beauty” in response to collective threat.
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