The other Sylvia Plath Book

	List of Plates
	Acknowledgements
Ch. 1	The Outline of the World Comes Clear	1
	Packaging Sylvia Plath	1
	Where is Sylvia Plath?	12
	The Plath Archives	22
	Dearly Beloved	31
Ch. 2	Straddling the Atlantic	45
	Your Puddle-Jumping Daughter	45
	Plath Our Compatriot	50
	Where Are We?	59
	Alienation and Belonging in the Bee Poems	69
	The Foreigner Within	74
Ch. 3	Plath's Environmentalism	84
	Background	84
	Prose	91
	Circulating Venom	105
	The Complications of Masculinity	119
	Do You Do No Harm?	128
Ch. 4	The Origins of the Bell Jar	141
	Bronte, Woolf and Plath	141
	A Comparison	142
	The Legacy	145
	Woolf and The Bell Jar	147
	Rethinking Buddy Willard	151
	The Misunderstood Mother and The Bell Jar Manuscripts	153
	Sylvia Plath's Villette	155
Ch. 5	A Way of Getting the Poems	176
	The Critics on Hughes and Plath	177
	Hughes's Story	180
	The Reciprocity of Influence between Plath and Hughes	191
	The Question of the Confessional	194
	Before Birthday Letters	197
	Textual Relationships and Poetic Conversations	200
	Bleeding Through the Page	203
	The Future	207
	Bibliography	218
	Index	231