Part I. Literary Contexts: 1. Plath and the American poetry scene Jonathan Ellis
2. The dominant trends in British poetry of the 1950s and early 1960s Eleanor Spencer
3. Plath and the classics Holly Ranger
4. Plath and the radio drama Andrew Walker
5. 'Sincerely yours': Plath and The New Yorker Peter K. Steinberg
Part II. Literary Technique and Influence: 6. Plath in the context of Stevie Smith Noreen Masud
7. Plath's whimsy Will May
8. Sylvia Plath and you Tracy Brain
9. Plath and the lyric Lucy Tunstall
10. Plath and the pastoral Iain Twiddy
Part III. Cultural Contexts: 11. Plath and food Gerard Woodward
12. Plath and fashion Rebecca C. Tuite
13. Experimental bravery: Plath's poetry and auteur cinema Lynda Bundtzen
14. Plath and television Nicola Presley
15. Plath and art Jane Hedley
Part IV. Sexual and Gender Contexts: 16. 'Minor scandal': queer writing contexts for The Bell Jar Beatrice Hitchman
17. 'Woman-haters were like gods': The Bell Jar and violence against women in 1950s America Kate Harding
18. Sylvia Plath and the culture of hygiene Laura Perry
Part V. Political and Religious Contexts: 19. The Bell Jar, the Rosenbergs and the problem of the enemy within Robin Peel
20. Religious contexts for Sylvia Plath's work Gail Crowther
21. Plath and nature Richard Kerridge
22. Plath and war Cornelia Pearsall
Part VI. Biographical Contexts: 23. Sylvia Plath's journals Sally Bayley
24. Plath's teaching and the shaping of her work Amanda Golden
25. Electroshock therapy and Plath's convulsive poetics Anita Helle
26. Plath's scrapbooks Peter K. Steinberg
27. Beyond letters home: Plath's unabridged correspondence Karen V. Kukil
Part VII. Plath and Place: 28. 'A certain minor light': Sylvia Plath in Brontë country Sarah Corbett
29. Plath in London Elaine Feinstein
30. Plath in Devon: growing words out of isolation Maeve O'Brien
Part VIII. The Creative Afterlife: 31. An alternative afterlife: Plath's experimental poetics Gareth Farmer
32. British and American editions of Ariel and The Bell Jar Elena Rebollo-Cortés
33. After Plath: the legacy of influence Fiona Sampson
34. P(l)athography: Sylvia Plath and her biographers Heather Clark.

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