Tag: Sylvia Plath

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McCarthyism and Witch-Hunts: Sylvia Plath’s Perspective

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  Sylvia Plath was born in the time of the Great Depression, was a child during World War II, and became a young adult during the Cold War era, catalysing her own disapproval of this latter, turbulent period in American history. Her literary representation of McCarthyism and the Cold War… Continue reading

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Review: Transatlantic Symposium, Transatlantic Literary Women Series

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This final event of the Transatlantic Literary Women Series, a Transatlantic Symposium, brought together ongoing conversations which had developed throughout; on North American and European women writers, their transatlantic identities, and the importance of their work. It was heartening to see the series’ aims fully realised at this event. Continue reading