Title: Sylvia Plath
First published: 1998
Description: This is the first critical work to provide a full account of Sylvia Plath's intellectual biography. Using previously unexamined archive material to explore the diversities of influence in Plath's work, Al Strangeways offers a close reworking of Harold Bloom's Oedipal poetics of the literary canon, breaking open the model onto a recognition of the cultural and political forces through which Plath's poetry struggles into expression.

This timely book brings out for the first time the powerful interplay between Plath's poetic development and the writings of Thomas de Quincey, D.H. Lawrence, William Blake, and Emily Bronte, and establishes the crucial context of the often controversial use that she makes of politics, history, and myth in a post-Holocaust world.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature, History, Plath, sylvia, 1932-1963
Places: United States
People: Sylvia Plath
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3566.L27 Z9137 1998