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
- Chapter 6 Plath in the Context of Stevie Smith
- Chapter 7 Plath’s Whimsy
- Chapter 8 Sylvia Plath and You
- Chapter 9 Plath and the Lyric
- Chapter 10 Plath and the Pastoral
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - Plath in the Context of Stevie Smith
from Part II - Literary Technique and Influence
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
- Chapter 6 Plath in the Context of Stevie Smith
- Chapter 7 Plath’s Whimsy
- Chapter 8 Sylvia Plath and You
- Chapter 9 Plath and the Lyric
- Chapter 10 Plath and the Pastoral
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Taking a 1962 fan letter that Plath wrote to the poet Stevie Smith three months before her suicide, Noreen Masud elucidates a key context out of which Plath’s work emerged. Drawing on The Bell Jar and ranging through her poetry, Masud argues that Plath owes much to Smith’s gendered perspective, dramatic monologues, and ambivalent but darkly comic engagement with the stifling nature of suburbia.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 64 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019