Sylvia Plath's Fiction

The first study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction covering The Bell Jar and all of her published and unpublished short stories drawing extensively on archival material.

List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Short Stories; Novels; 1. Literary Contexts; Virginia Woolf; The New Yorker; Women's Magazine Fiction; Women's Madness Narratives; Ted Hughes; 2. Plath's Poetry and Fiction; Smith, 1954-55; Cambridge, 1956-57; Falcon Yard, 1957-58; Boston and Yaddo, 1958-59; The Bell Jar, 1961; Double Exposure, 1962-63; 3. The Politics of Plath's Fiction; Political Development; Race Stories; Cold War Stories; Crazy About the Rosenbergs; 'I Could Love a Russian Boy'; Strange Love; Growing Up in World War II; 4. Gender and Society in The Bell Jar; Sex; Medicine; Psychiatry; Beauty; Marriage; 'Femininity'; 5. Gender and Society in Plath's Short Stories; Plath's Women's Magazine Fiction; Home Is Where the Heart Is; Feminine Identities; Violence and Patriarchy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.