Representing Sylvia Plath

Introduction: 'Purdah' and the enigma of representation / Sally Bayley and Tracy Brain

Part I. Contexts: 1. 'Mailed into space': on Sylvia Plath's letters / Jonathan Ellis; 2. 'The photographic chamber of the eye': Plath photography, and the post-confessional muse / Anita Helle; 3. 'O the tangles of that old bed': fantasies of incest and the 'Daddy' narrative in Ariel / Lynda K. Bundtzen; 4. Plath and torture: cultural contexts for Plath's imagery of the Holocaust / Steven Gould Axelrod

Part II. Poetics and Composition: 5. 'The trees of the mind are black, the light is blue': sublime encounters in Sylvia Plath's tree poems / Sally Bayley; 6. Coming to terms with colour: Plath's visual aesthetic / Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty; 7. 'Madonna (of the refrigerator)': mapping Sylvia Plath's double in 'The Babysitters' drafts / Kathleen Connors; 8. 'Procrustean identity': Sylvia Plath's women's magazine fiction / Luke Ferretter

Part III. Representation: 9. Confession, contrition, and concealment: evoking Plath in Ted Hughes's 'Howls and Whispers' / Lynda K. Bundtzen; 10. Fictionalising Sylvia Plath / Tracy Brain; 11. Primary representations: three artists respond to Sylvia Plath; Adolescent Plath

'the girl who would be God' /

Suzie Hanna; Bodily imprints: a choreographic response to Sylvia Plath's Poppy Poems / Kate Flatt (with Sally Bayley); Stella Vine's peanut crunching Plath / Sally Bayley.