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  • Chapter 20 - Religious Contexts for Plath’s Work

  • from Part V - Political and Religious Contexts
  • Edited by Tracy Brain, Bath Spa University
  • Book:
    Sylvia Plath in Context
    Published online:
    03 August 2019
    Print publication:
    22 August 2019, pp 213-220

  • 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.