Sylvia Plath's The bell jar

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In this classic coming-of-age novel set in post-World War II America, Esther Greenwood emerges as a double for author Sylvia Plath. A summer internship at a fashion magazine in New York City reveals only the lack of beauty in the young womans inner life, as Esther succumbs to a pervasive depression that she likens to being trapped beneath the title object, a bell jar, struggling for her next breath. Noted literary scholar Harold Bloom introduces this new title in the Blooms Guides series, which…

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Title Statements

Full title :Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloom's Literary Criticism
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

Description:175 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781604132038, 1604132035
oclc:ocn244566775
LC Classification:PS3566.L27
Dewey Decimal:813/.54

Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Howard Moss on illness and disclosure in the novel -- Vance Bourjaily on pseudonyms and alternate identities -- Robert Scholes on Plath's use of realism -- Linda W. Wagner on the female coming-of-age novel -- E. Miller Budick on Plath's feminist discourse -- Diane S. Bonds on Esther's tentative rebirth -- Paula Bennett on models of womanhood -- Pat Macpherson on the portrayal of social and gender conventions -- Tim Kendall on Esther's search for identity -- Marilyn Boyer on language and disability -- Kate A. Baldwin on the novel's social and political contexts -- Janet Badia on pop culture appropriations of The bell jar -- Works by Sylvia Plath -- Annotated bibliography.

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