LEADER 03976nam 2200553 450 001 9910788675103321 005 20230725045332.0 010 $a1-61376-005-1 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065176 035 $a(MH)012925267-0 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606721 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11413819 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606721 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10582901 035 $a(PQKB)10447847 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4532901 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4532901 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11252866 035 $a(OCoLC)794700506 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065176 100 $a20160913h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSylvia Plath and the mythology of women readers /$fJanet Badia 210 1$aAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$d2011. 210 4$d©2011 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 202 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-55849-895-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-194) and index. 327 $aIntroduction. "There Is No Such Thing as a Death Girl" : Literary Bullying and the Plath Reader -- "Dissatisfied, Family-Hating Shrews" : Women Readers and the Politics of Plath's Literary Reception -- "Oh, You Are Dark" : The Plath Reader in Popular Culture -- "We Did Not Wish to Give the Impression" : Plath Fandom and the Question of Representation -- "A Fiercely Fought Defense" : Ted Hughes and the Plath Reader -- Conclusion. "I Don't Mean Any Harm" : Frieda Hughes, Plath Readers, and the Question of Resistance. 330 $aDepicted in popular films, television series, novels, poems, and countless media reports, Sylvia Plath's women readers have become nearly as legendary as Plath herself, in large part because the depictions are seldom kind. If one is to believe the narrative told by literary and popular culture, Plath's primary audience is a body of young, misguided women who uncritically even pathologically consume Plath's writing with no awareness of how they harm the author's reputation in the process. Janet Badia investigates the evolution of this narrative, tracing its origins, exposing the gaps and elisions that have defined it, and identifying it as a bullying mythology whose roots lie in a long history of ungenerous, if not outright misogynistic, rhetoric about women readers that has gathered new energy from the backlash against contemporary feminism. More than just an exposé of our cultural biases against women readers, Badia's research also reveals how this mythology has shaped the production, reception, and evaluation of Plath's body of writing, affecting everything from the Hughes family's management of Plath's writings to the direction of Plath scholarship today. Badia discusses a wide range of texts and issues whose significance has gone largely unnoticed, including the many book reviews that have been written about Plath's publications; films and television shows that depict young Plath readers; editorials and fan tributes written about Plath; and Ted and (daughter) Frieda Hughes's writings about Plath's estate and audience. -- Book Description. 606 $aWomen$xBooks and reading 606 $aFeminism in literature 615 0$aWomen$xBooks and reading. 615 0$aFeminism in literature. 676 $a811/.54 700 $aBadia$b Janet$01190831 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788675103321 996 $aSylvia Plath and the mythology of women readers$92756926 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress