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<p><i>Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination</i> reconsiders cultural representations of Assia Wevill (1927–1969), according her a more significant position than a femme fatale or scapegoat for marital discord and suicide in the lives and works of two major twentieth-century poets. </p><p>Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick’s innovative study combines feminist recovery work with discussions of the power and gendered dynamics that shape literary history. She focuses on how Wevill figures into poems by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, showing that they often portrayed her in harsh, conflicted, even demeaning terms. Their representations of Wevill established condemnatory narratives that were perpetuated by subsequent critics and biographers and in works of popular culture. In Plath’s literary treatments, Goodspeed-Chadwick locates depictions of both desirable and undesirable femininity, conveyed in images of female bodies as beautiful but barren or as vehicles for dangerous, destructive acts. By contrast, Hughes’s portrayals illustrate the role Wevill occupied in his life as muse and abject object. His late work <i>Capriccio</i> constitutes a sustained medit

Author

Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick;

Publisher

Louisiana State University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807170564

Subjects

Science, Literary Criticism, Poetry