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Sylvia Plath and the Bell Jar: a Selective Bibliography Sylvia Plath and The Bell Jar: A Selective Bibliography Compiled by Professor Christine S. Fagan & Adam Riccitelli In conjunction with the 13th Annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Lecture February 2013 Many of these titles were acquired through the Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Library Fund Plath, Sylvia (Author – Books by Sylvia Plath) Plath, Sylvia. Ariel. New York: Harper, 1966. Print. ---. Ariel: The Restored Edition. New York: Harper, 2004. Print. ---. The Bell Jar. New York: Harper, 1971. Print. ---. The Bell Jar. 25th anniversary ed. New York: Harper, 1996. Print. ---. The Colossus and Other Poems. New York: Knopf, 1967. Print. ---. Crossing the Water: Transitional Poems. New York: Harper, 1971. Print. ---. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts. New York: Harper, 1979. Print. ---. Winter Trees. New York: Harper, 1972. Print. Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. Ed. Karen V. Kukil. New York: Anchor, 2000. Print. Plath, Sylvia, and Aurelia Schober Plath. Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950- 1963. New York: Harper, 1975. Print. Plath, Sylvia, and Rotraut Susanne Berner. The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit. New York: St. Martin's, 1996. Print. Plath, Sylvia, and Ted Hughes. The Collected Poems. New York: Harper, 1981. Print. ---. The Collected Poems. Cutchogue: Buccaneer, 1981. Print. Plath, Sylvia, Ted Hughes, and Frances Monson McCullough. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. New York: Dial, 1982. Print. Plath, Sylvia (Subject – Books about Sylvia Plath) Aird, Eileen M. Sylvia Plath. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973. Print. Alexander, Paul. Ariel Ascending: Writings about Sylvia Plath. New York: Harper, 1985. Print. ---. Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath. New York: Penguin, 1991. Print. Anderson, Linda R. Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century: Remembered Futures. New York: Prentice, 1997. Print. Annas, Pamela J. A Disturbance in Mirrors: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. New York: Greenwood, 1988. Print. Axelrod, Steven Gould. Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990. Print. Badia, Janet. Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2011. Print. Bassnett, Susan. Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Print. Bayley, Sally, and Tracy Brain. Representing Sylvia Plath. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. Print. Becker, Jillian. Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 2003. Print. Bennett, Paula. My Life, a Loaded Gun: Female Creativity and Feminist Poetics. Boston: Beacon, 1986. Print. Bloom, Harold. Sylvia Plath. New York: Chelsea House, 1989. Print. Bonnefoy, Yves, et al. Theme & Version: Plath & Ronsard. London: Menard, 1995. Print. Bowman, Catherine. The Plath Cabinet. Tribeca: Four Way, 2009. Print. Brain, Tracy. The Other Sylvia Plath. Harlow: Longman, 2001. Print. Brennan, Claire. The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. New York: Columbia UP, 2001. Print. Broe, Mary Lynn. Protean Poetic: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1980. Print. Bundtzen, Lynda K. The Other Ariel. New ed. Stroud: Sutton, 2005. Print. ---. Plath's Incarnations: Woman and the Creative Process. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1983. Print. Butscher, Edward. Sylvia Plath, Method and Madness. New York: Seabury, 1976. Print. Clark, Heather L. The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. Print. Connors, Kathleen, and Sally Bayley. Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. Print. Curry, Renée R. White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2000. Print. Dickie, Margaret. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1979. Print. Ferretter, Luke. Sylvia Plath's Fiction: A Critical Study. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2010. Print. Gill, Jo. The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. Print. ---. The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath Jo Gill. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. Print. Hall, Caroline King Barnard. Sylvia Plath. Boston: Twayne, 1978. Print. ---. Sylvia Plath, Revised. New York: Twayne, 1998. Print. Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Secaucus, NJ: Carol, 1991. Print. Helle, Anita Plath. The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 2007. Print. Hemphill, Stephanie. Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath. New York: Knopf, 2007. Print. Hicok, Bethany. Degrees of Freedom: American Women Poets and the Women's College, 1905-1955. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell UP, 2008. Print. Holbrook, David. Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence. London: Athlone, 1988. Print. Hughes, Ted. Birthday Letters. New York: Farrar, 1998. Print. Hungerford, Amy. The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification. Chicago: University of CP, 2003. Print. Kendall, Tim. Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study. London: Faber, 2001. Print. Keniston, Ann. Overheard Voice: Address and Subjectivity in Postmodern American Poetry. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print. Kroll, Judith. Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. New York: Harper, 1976. Print. Lane, Gary, and Maria Stevens. Sylvia Plath: A Bibliography. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1978. Print. Lane, Gary. Sylvia Plath: New Views on the Poetry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1979. Print. Macpherson, Pat. Reflecting on the Bell Jar. New York: Routledge, 1991. Print. Malcolm, Janet. The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. New York: Knopf, 1994. Print. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Her Husband: Hughes and Plath--a Marriage. New York: Viking, 2003. Print. Newman, Charles. The Art of Sylvia Plath, a Symposium. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1970. Print. Sylvia. Dir. Christine Jeffs. Perf. Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig. 2003. Universal, 2004. DVD. Parini, Jay. American Writers. New York, N.Y.: Scribner's, 2003. Print. Peel, Robin. Writing Back: Sylvia Plath and Cold War Politics. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2002. Print. Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. Ed. Karen V. Kukil. New York: Anchor, 2000. Print. Plath, Sylvia. Ariel: The Restored Edition. New York: Harper, 2004. Print. Plath, Sylvia, Ted Hughes, and Frances Monson McCullough. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. New York: Dial, 1982. Print. Ries, Lawrence R. Wolf Masks: Violence in Contemporary Poetry. Port Washington: Kennikat, 1977. Print. Rose, Jacqueline. The Haunting of Sylvia Plath. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1992. Print. Rosenblatt, Jon. Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Initiation. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1979. Print. Rowland, Antony. Holocaust Poetry: Awkward Poetics in the Work of Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Ted Hughes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2005. Print. Saldívar, Toni. Sylvia Plath: Confessing the Fictive Self. New York: Lang, 1992. Print. Steinberg, Peter K. Sylvia Plath. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. Print. Steiner, Nancy Hunter. A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath. New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1973. Print. Stevenson, Anne. Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. Boston: Houghton, 1989. Print. Strangeways, Al. Sylvia Plath: The Shaping of Shadows. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1998. Print. Van Dyne, Susan R. Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1993. Print. Vendler, Helen. Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003. Print. Wagner, Erica. Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters. New York: Norton, 2001. Print. Wagner-Martin, Linda. The Bell Jar, a Novel of the Fifties. New York: Twayne, 1992. Print. ---. Critical Essays on Sylvia Plath. Boston: Hall, 1984. 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