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
- Chapter 19 The Bell Jar, the Rosenbergs and the Problem of the Enemy Within
- Chapter 20 Religious Contexts for Plath’s Work
- Chapter 21 Plath and Nature
- Chapter 22 Plath and War
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 20 - Religious Contexts for Plath’s Work
from Part V - Political and Religious Contexts
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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
- Chapter 19 The Bell Jar, the Rosenbergs and the Problem of the Enemy Within
- Chapter 20 Religious Contexts for Plath’s Work
- Chapter 21 Plath and Nature
- Chapter 22 Plath and War
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Gail Crowther examines Plath’s ambivalent response to religion by highlighting how the context of her religious upbringing lay at the root of her theological questionings. Crowther examines the impact of the Plath family’s Unitarian faith on Plath’s writing, her study of religion throughout her school and college education, and her adult position of reluctant atheism. Crowther shows how Plath’s writing disrupts Judeo–Christian ideas of patrilineage, instead putting Marian notions of love, care and redemption at the centre of her poems.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 213 - 220Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019