Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 5 March 2026
- ISBN 9781009575515
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages222 pages
- Size 229x152x16 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 693
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Short description:
Uniquely celebrates and analyses witches, magic, and demonology from Shakespeare to the Cold War in Sylvia Plath's writings.
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Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural brings a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective to the reading of Plath. Following recently published new material, this book offers a novel approach to the re-examination and celebration of supernatural themes in Plath's writings. It expands Plath studies by establishing Plath's creative and intellectual interests in early modern literature about witches and demonology, knowledge of the legacies of the Salem witch trials during McCarthyism, and her depth of understanding of the complex relationship between gender and magical powers. The book also demonstrates how Plath and her contemporaries responded to post-war American and British politics through employing and repurposing supernatural concepts while engaging with popular culture, atomic warfare, and colonialism. This book provides a systematic overview of Plath's materials, from draft manuscripts to The Bell Jar, and a unique analysis of post-war literature and culture through the lens of the supernatural.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Sylvia Plath and the American witch-hunts; 2. Religious prosecutions in Plath's cold war poetics; 3. Shakespearean maternal and paternal magic in Plath's poetry; 4. Doctor Faustus and demonology in post-war America; 5. Ritual magic and Plath's poetic spellcasting; 6. Supernatural transformations; 7. The racial rhetoric of witchcraft in the bee poems; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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