Literary contexts. Virginia Woolf ; The New Yorker ; Women's magazine fiction ; Women's madness narratives ; Ted Hughes
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
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 the Second World War
Gender and society in The bell jar. Sex ; Medicine ; Psychiatry ; Beauty ; Marriage ; "Femininity"
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.
