Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Chapter 11 Plath and Food
- Chapter 12 Plath and Fashion
- Chapter 13 Experimental Bravery: Plath’s Poetry and Auteur Cinema
- Chapter 14 Plath and Television
- Chapter 15 Plath and Art
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 12 - Plath and Fashion
from Part III - Cultural Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
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Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Chapter 11 Plath and Food
- Chapter 12 Plath and Fashion
- Chapter 13 Experimental Bravery: Plath’s Poetry and Auteur Cinema
- Chapter 14 Plath and Television
- Chapter 15 Plath and Art
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The fashion historian Rebecca C. Tuite provides a detailed account of the pervasiveness of Plath’s engagement with fashion throughout her literary and visual work, showing for the first time how powerful Plath’s interest was from the outset, and remained throughout her writing life. Tuite reveals the contradiction in the Plath who was critical of the cultural and economic influence of fashion, but also able to draw on it artistically and aesthetically, as well as to take personal pleasure in it.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 125 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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