Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
A reconsideration of Plath that puts the abuse back in the story and takes her prose seriously.
Emily Van Duyne rereads Sylvia Plath against the version assembled after her death, arguing that the domestic violence in her marriage was written out and that Ted Hughes’s control of the estate shaped what survived. She works from letters and the late journals, and the case is made without turning Plath into a passive figure in her own life.
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Tyler Cowen
Emily Van Duyne, Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation. I don’t feel this book is what I need at the margin, but it is a very good and engaging addition to the canon surrounding Plath.
Source · December 2024
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