Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation - Hardcover

Van Duyne, Emily

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9781324006978: Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

Synopsis

A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • One of BookPage's Best Biographies of 2024 • One of Literary Hub's 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024 • A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century.

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination―the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne―a superfan and scholar―radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy. Drawing from decades of study on Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes, the chief architect of Plath’s mythology; the life and tragic suicide of Assia Wevill, Hughes’s mistress; newly available archival materials; and a deep understanding of intimate partner violence, Van Duyne seeks to undo the silencing of Sylvia Plath and resuscitate her as the hardworking, brilliant writer she was.

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About the Author

Emily Van Duyne is an associate professor at Stockton University and a 2022 Fulbright Scholar. Her work has appeared in Literary Hub, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Harvard Review, and American Poetry Review. She lives in New Jersey.

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9781324110361: Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

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ISBN 10:  1324110368 ISBN 13:  9781324110361
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2025
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