The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath covers a full range of contemporary scholarship on Plath’s work, including such topics as:

New insights from the publication of Plath’s letters

Current scholarly perspectives: feminist and gender studies, archival studies, race, disability studies, space and place

Plath’s poetry, her novel, The Bell Jar, and her writing for children

Plath’s literary contexts, from the Classics and the long poem to W.B. Yeats, Edith Sitwell, Ruth Fainlight, Carol Ann Duffy, and Ted Hughes

Plath’s broadcasting work for the BBC

New perspectives on media and pedagogy, including service learning and the digital humanities.