'Minor Scandal': Lesbian Contexts for The Bell Jar

Hitchman, Beatrice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6088-6497 (2019) 'Minor Scandal': Lesbian Contexts for The Bell Jar. In: Sylvia Plath in Context. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 169-179. ISBN 9781108470131

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Abstract

This chapter explores how the context of repression vs. liberation of lesbian sexuality in the USA from 1950 onwards might have influence Plath's writing of 'The Bell Jar'.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Chapter 16.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Sylvia Plath; REF2021
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR111 Women authors P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR1 Literary history and criticism P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR401 Modern > PR471 20th century P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR750 Prose > PR821 Prose fiction. The novel P Language and Literature > PS American literature
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Arts, Culture and Environment
Research Priority Areas:	Culture, Continuity, and Transformation
Depositing User:	Beatrice Hitchman
Date Deposited:	20 Feb 2018 14:10
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2025 10:45
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/5403

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